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 explorer 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 



A MASAI oV moruan {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 still held 

 these wide uplands as absolute masters. 



Oscar Baumann, an explorer who did good service, 

 was one of the first to traverse their inhospitable dominions. 

 It was some years after Fischer's journey that Baumann 



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