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winding character. Where we crossed, the water was 

 generally very shallow, though deep pools lay between. 

 The whole river, in fact, looked like a series of long narrow 

 lakes, though in the rainy season, the water rises to the top 

 of the banks, which are 20 ft. high, and forms a rushing 

 torrent varying from 30 to 90 ft. in width, very difficult 

 to cross. 



After three hours' march we arrived at the large 

 stockaded village of Lakushi, where we had not meant to 

 make a halt, but just outside, we came upon such a clear 

 view of the Murchison Range about forty miles off, that we 

 determined to stop there and try to connect it. We 

 identified the principal peak which we had observed at Ibi, 

 and took angles to the chief points. Unfortunately it came 

 on to rain, so we could get no azimuths or latitudes. 



On May 6, we did a five hours' march to Agikumai, 

 which is a very clean town enclosed in a stockade and trench. 

 All the villages in this part of the country are stockaded 

 with ditches, and the huts with their compounds are hidden 

 and scattered in plantations of millet. 



It was at this place we saw a freshly killed lion and the 

 slayer, the deed having been done by a poisoned arrow. 

 The animal was said not to have moved after being shot. 

 The skin was pegged out to dry, and a bit from the forehead 

 was removed to mix with other poison to bring the sportsman 

 luck. 



Round here the game is exceptionally good. We saw 

 great herds of kob and Senegal hartebeest. With care it 

 was possible to get near enough to the herd to watch every 

 movement. The kob are especially graceful, and even the 



