300 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
almost impossible to follow without a guide, Mr. 
Foaker, the District Officer at the Ravine, very 
kindly procured us a reliable man—a _ young 
‘*\N EXCELLEN'!, CHEERY FELLOW... NAMED LANDAALU.” 
Uashin Gishu Masai named Uliagurma. But as he 
could not speak a word of Swahili, we had also to 
engage an interpreter, an excellent, cheery fellow of 
the same tribe named Landaalu ; and he in his turn 
