CHAPTER XIV 



ALONG THE GUASO NAROK 



I WAS now ready to set out, without any further 

 delay, on the more difficult and arduous portion of 

 my journey to the north, my friends intending to 

 accompany me for part of the way only, and then 

 return to Nairobi at their leisure. 



Accordingly, it was with no little satisfaction that 

 on the following day we left the camp by the Pes 

 Swamp. We found, however, that the donkeys 

 were quite wild and had a decided objection to 

 carrying anything, so that the pandemonium which 

 ensued when the men tried to catch them and pack 

 sacks of food on their backs was simply indescribable. 

 Men and loads were flung all over the place, and it 

 was not until each individual beast had become 

 thoroughly tired out and exhausted that anything 

 could be done with it. Even then they gave a great 

 deal of trouble and worry, and the donkey-boys, for 

 this day at any rate, were very sorry for themselves, 



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