150 WAR: CAMPAIGNING IN EAST AFRICA 



whites and ninety askaris, had to surrender after 

 putting up a fight for some days on the mountain. 

 The success, insignificant though it seems, was 

 acceptable enough in those days. The wet season 

 was now setting in, and great numbers of horses 

 and mules began to die daily from horse sickness. 

 Out of the twenty-two scouts, no less than eighteen 

 died, and the only animals that seemed to survive 

 were the little Somali mules ; but even they were 

 not absolutely immune. 



From Arusha we went by road back to Kagiado, 

 and thence right round by rail to a big camp at 

 Mbuni. There the E.A.M.R. found their camp 

 once more alongside our old friends of the 17th 

 Indian Cavalry, whose Australian horses seemed 

 to have suffered less than most. " Your regiment 

 and ours are one," said an Indian trooper in his 

 pleasure at seeing us again. 



