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Baron Deekan leaves this for Momlass in a few da3 r s. He will 

 return to the Jagga territory, thence turn the Kilimagari snow- 

 peak, and push on North for Kenia ; coming back again to the 

 coast of the Masai haunts. 



Some months ago I proposed a tour to this Kenia. My idea was 

 and is, that it is the highest peak of all ; and the centre of a 

 group whose eastern streams run down to the Formosa Bay south 

 of Sanoo, under the names of the Ozi, the Dana (probably the main 

 stream) the Pamumla, &c. I cannot help also conjecturing that 

 streams run N. W. from Kenia. Government properly considered 

 that I should not leave my post at Zanzibar for any length of time ; 

 hence I could not undertake the trip in person. But I feel pretty 

 sure that if prosecuted across Kenia and to the north point of the 

 Victoria Lake, it would be one of the most interesting tours pos- 

 sible. 



You say some gentlemen wish to come to Zambezi on a shooting 

 expedition. Allow me to mention that some time ago Baron Deekan 

 entered at Wanga, south of Wasseenpar : of latitude north point 

 of Pemla Islands, and passed ten days in land W. and E. South to 

 the Lake Zijse, through which passes the river Paugani debouching 

 nearly opposite to Zanzibar. The Baron's route was good, practica- 

 ble for donkeys, tribes not hostile, passed after leaving the coast, the 

 Wadigo country, keeping the Umba river always on the right, in 

 four days reach Baramu belonging to the Usumbarah king. Pass 

 villages of Tassini, Tesa, Mikueni, Tesamkuba, of the Wadigos, 

 then three days through the wilderness (game, antelopes, gazelles, 

 pig, rhinoceros, fowl, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, &c.,) then from 

 Baramu to Pare, two days' sport the same, then from Pare over 

 Kiswani in two days to the Lake Zijse, the lake is some thirty miles 

 long and two to three broad, its western point only three hours from 

 Daffeta where you can buy supplies. This sporting-ground is mag- 

 nificent : elephants, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, lion and all game 

 down to the smallest. 



There is only one day's march during which no water is procurable. 

 A party leaving Bombay during the north-east Monsoon, by Buggalow 

 could reach Zanzibar in eighteen or twenty days ; and be on their 

 shooting ground in a month from date of quitting India. 



Mr. Cooke just now left me to put up some specimens for you. 



