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YOUNG MASAI WOMEN COILING IRON WIRE) AROUND THE LIMBS OE A FRIEND 



This and the preceding four photos are from "The Uganda Protectorate," by Sir Harry- 

 Johnston 



Naivasha. Messrs Mearns and Loring 

 made a thorough biological survey of 

 Mount Kenia, while the rest of the party 

 skirted its western base, went to and up 

 the Guaso Nyero, and later visited the 

 Uasin Geisha region and both sides of 

 the Rift Valley. JNIessrs Kermit Roose- 

 velt and Tarlton went to the Lailsipia 

 and Lake Harrington, and Doctor 

 Mearns and Mr Kermit Roosevelt made 

 separate trips to the coast region near 

 Mombasa. On December 19 the expedi- 

 tion left East Africa, crossed Uganda, 

 and went down the White Nile. North 

 of Wadelai we crossed and spent over 

 three weeks in the Lado, and from Gon- 

 dokoro Mr Kermit Roosevelt and I again 

 crossed into the Lado, spending eight or 

 ten days in the neighborhood of Redjaf. 



At Gondokoro we were met by the 

 steamer which the sirdar with great cour- 

 tesy had put at our disposal ; on the way 

 to Khartoum we made collections at 

 Lake No. and on the Bahr el Ghazal and 

 Bar el Zeraf. We owe our warmest 

 thanks for the generous courtesy shown 

 us and the aid freely given us, not only 

 by the sirdar, but by all the British offi- 

 cials in East Africa, Uganda, and the 

 Sudan, and by the Belgian officials in the 

 Lado ; and this, of course, means that we 

 are also indebted to the home govern- 

 ments of England and Belgium. 



On the trip Mr Heller has prepared 

 1,020 specimens of mammals, the major- 

 ity of large size ; ]\Ir Loring has prepared 

 3,163, and Doctor Mearns 714 — a total of 

 4,897 mammals. Of birds. Doctor 



