CHAPTER XIX 



THROUGH SAMBURU LAND 



JOURNEYING quietly along in this manner we 

 arrived at the boma of the late Mr. Neumann T who 

 wrote such a very interesting book on elephant 

 hunting in East Equatorial Africa. The natives all 

 knew him as Nyama Yangu, a name they gave 

 him owing to his habit of saying, whenever any- 

 body pointed out an elephant or other animal, 

 "Nyama yangu" which means "the beast is 

 mine." 



We camped close to his somewhat dilapidated 

 hut under the shade of some doum palms, which 

 are plentiful here. A few of the porters employed 

 themselves in gathering the hard fruit of this tree 

 and beating it into a kind of flour, which they then 

 made into bread. I tried a piece of the loaf so made, 

 but cannot say that I relished it very much, although 

 the fruit itself has a rather pleasant flavour when 

 reduced to powder. 



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