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feet, struggled about until the stiffness went off a little 

 and he was able to get about and graze. In the evening 

 he was able to walk a little. A diffuse swelling extended 

 from between the hind legs, reaching along the belly up 

 to the forelegs. Otherwise there appeared to be no dis- 

 tress in breathing, or any increased temperature judged 

 by feeling the ears " (p. 167). 



150. 1898. Prince Nicholas D. Ghika. 



" Cinq Mois au Pays des Somalis " (Georg & Co. : 

 Geneve et Bale), pp. 131-132. 



Tsetse-fly destroying cattle and horses in the Aulthan 

 Country, Somaliland (on the north bank of the Prince 

 Ferdinand River, and south of the "VVebi Shebeyli), in 

 January, 1896. 



[Translation.] — " Another consideration inclined us to 

 listen to them ; that is to say the presence, in the Aulihan 

 Country, of the Tsetse-fly : one after another several 

 camels have succumbed to its bites, and this very morning 

 one of our horses collapsed suddenly {est tomhe foudroye) 

 at the moment that it was being bridled ; another, also 

 bitten, is so ill that it cannot be long before it has to be 

 left by the wayside." 



151. 1898. A. H. Neumann. 



"Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. 

 Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting under 

 Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo Savages of the 

 Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of 

 Lake Rudolph" (London: Rowland Ward, Limited), 

 pp. 8, 28, 142, 145, 160, 161, 162, 163, 282. 



Decemher, 1893. — Mombasa to Laiju ("a district on 

 the north side of the Tana, and close to the foot of the 

 Njambeni or Jambeni range, which is a little east of 

 Mount Kenia "). — " I ventured to disregard advice to 

 take the Tana River route — involving a sea voyage, a 

 fresh oi'ganisation, and a journey through difficult and 

 unhealthy ' fly '-infested bush all the way, with little 

 useful help from canoes (which could not take animals) 

 against the stream — and elected for the overland one 

 through northern Ukarabani " (p. 8). 



Beturn to Laiju, April 14, 1894. — " The news that 

 awaited me was far from cheerinc;. Although before I left 



