FROM EL BOGOI TO LAKE RUDOLPH 



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were built among the tree -stems, with no attempt at a 

 clearing. 



In the morning we descended, early, the almost perpendicular 

 face of the range by a fairly well -beaten path to my old 

 " lucky camp," as I called it, in a glade at the foot, whence 

 I had hunted the year before and bagged several fine bulls. 

 On the way we passed through the present abode of Lesiat's 



Ndorobo Encampment in the Subugo" Forest on the 

 LoROGi Mountains. 



(P'rom a Pliotograph by the .Vl thok.) 



clan, in a romantic gorge near the mountain's base, the funny 

 little untidy huts picturesquely stuck here and there where 

 space could be found among great rocks and trees. A bevy 

 of comely " dittos " (damsels) greeted me with friendly hand- 

 shakes. Lcsiat himself, the " laigvvanane " (or headman), as 

 they called him, was out. However, they all told me that 

 elephants were about again and had been seen the previous 

 day — news which Lesiat himself confirmed in the evening. 



