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day I killed the old cow at Mreya. The tusks, which he 

 loyally gave up to me quite cheerfully, were small. I would 

 not have shot it if I had known ; but it was a snap-shot in the 

 bush, and the only one I got a chance at. This one made up 

 my total so far for this trip to twenty-five. He said his 

 messengers had found lots of spoor in the "subugo," but he 

 thought there were also some elephants in the gorge of the 

 El Bogoi, just under the mountains, and promised to come in 

 the morning to hunt with me. Our search there was fruitless. 

 We followed up the El Bogoi, carefully examining its banks 

 all the way, to the head of the ravine, but not a spoor could 

 we see. This proved there could be no elephants in the 

 neighbourhood of the stream. We accordingly came back to 

 camp early. 



In the afternoon I was visited by quite a crowd of Ndorobos, 

 composed of Lesiat's people and some of a clan living farther 

 along the mountains at their highest part (which is that properly 

 called Lorogi, though the name is often used to denote the 

 whole range). These latter were, with their headman — a nice 

 old gentleman — on a visit to Lesiat's tribe, with whom they 

 were friendly. I was glad to make their acquaintance, as I 

 hoped some day to hunt in their district. I had an interesting 

 chat with the old man, who had brought me a little honey, and 

 gave him a present. He described their part of the country as 

 a renowned elephant preserve, and said truly, as I knew from 

 what I had heard elsewhere, that it had always been celebrated 

 as such. After these interviews Lesiat's young bloods danced 

 for me. Their dances are similar to those of the Masai, con- 

 sisting mainly of jumping up and down accompanied by singing. 

 The music is, of course, of a barbaric and primitive kind, but 

 rather tuneful. I was very sorry I had no meat to give my 

 visitors ; but, as a matter of fact, I had not a scrap for myself 

 or I would have shared it with them, as they knew well. 

 Indeed I was having rather starvation times just then, and felt 

 a bit stale, as the result of constant hard exercise with little that 



