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Tana, where I left them in charge of a civil and intelligent 

 headman named Mtiya, and made the best of my way to 

 Mombasa with a few men carrying my personal baggage ; 

 leaving Abdulla — now promoted to be headman and in whom 

 I had perfect confidence — to follow with the ivory.^ 



AUTHOR'S Ivory Caravan arriving. 



(From a Pliotograpli l)y Mr. J. R. W. Pi(;ott.) 



I arrived at the beginning of March 1895, after an absence 

 of fourteen months, the caravan getting in nearly a fortnight 

 later. 



' 1 had to bid adieu to Dr. Kolb, who was not returning direct to the coast just 

 then. He subsequently made another journey from Mombasa to Mount Kenia, when he 

 succeeded in ascending the mountain, and did much careful geographical work in its 

 neighbourhood. An interesting account of this expedition has been published in Dr. A. 

 I'eterniann's Milteilungen (42. Band, 1896). 



