THE EXPLORATION OF LAKE CHAD 85 



Kowa-Baga, and as each familiar point was put behind my 

 anxiety lessened and my heart grew lighter, for under the 

 cloak of night which changes the appearances of all things 

 — as the Drill Book says — I thought I saw at times the 

 shadows of horsemen rising up behind the trees. At last 

 the dawn came, and gazing ahead I beheld the pale light 

 on the water of the Kowa-Baga. 



