464. A MINERAL WATER. 



danced, thus I and others played ; and when tired, 

 I threw down my musical instrument, Allee and 

 another struggled for the direction of the band, 

 and I left the former far outshining me both in 

 vivacity and dexterity of touch, although he 

 managed luckily for my repose, very soon to 

 knock out the bottom of the gourd, and thus gave 

 the signal for the party to break up. 



May 21s£. — We started by sunrise this morning, 

 the principal Wahama Kafilah alone accompanying 

 us ; the remainder, belonging to the different tribes, 

 determined to remain at Mulkukuyu another day. 

 About half a mile from our halting-place, Ave 

 marched along the border of the washing lake, 

 and I turned aside, with some of the Kafilah people, 

 to examine it. 



A few minutes' walk satisfied me that it occupied 

 the basin-like depression of one of a number of low 

 extinct craters, among which we had just been 

 moving. A descent of a few yards, took me to the 

 edge of the water, which, as I expected, was of a 

 mineral character, having an alkaline taste, and 

 slightly impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen 

 gas, detected by its smell. The lake was nearly 

 circular; but its diameter w T as not one hundred 

 yards in length. Its surface presented a green 

 appearance, not occasioned, as I could perceive, by 

 any subaqueous vegetation; and the water, when 

 taken out, was colourless, and very clear. 



Our road was sometimes over a black soil of 



