In Wildest Africa -^ 



lands in the district had already been specially noticed, 

 and compared to the richest pastures of the Swiss Alps, 

 by the discoverer of, and first traveller in, this region, 

 Dr. G. A. Fischer, an ex[)]orer who, alas! so soon fell a 

 victim to the climate. 



Fischer — in 1883 — was the first to visit the neighbour- 

 ing Lake Naiwasha. How the situation has changed 



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A M.\s\i .'/• iivruan {i.e. old man) answering my questions about the 



ELELESCHO PLANT. 



since then ! At that time, and thus only twelve years 

 before I first camped there, the warlike Masai siill held 

 these wid(; uplands as absolute masters. 



Oscar Haumann. an e.\plorer who did good service, 

 was one of the first to traverse their inhospital)]e dominions. 

 It was some years after Fischer's journey that iJ.uimcUin 



