DISCOVEEY 



OF 



LAKES RUDOLF AND STEFANIE 



CHAPTEE I 



AT NYEMPS. HUNTING ADVENTURES ON LAKE BARINGO. 

 PREPARATIONS FOR JOURNEY FURTHER NORTH 



From December 7, 1887, to Fehruary 10, 1888. 



My arrival at Nyenips — Account of the Wakwafi of Nyemps — Count Teleki's journey 

 to Nyemps — Qualla goes to the Wakikuyu — Start from Nyemps — We lose our 

 way— Himtmg life on the Guaso Nyuki — Animal life in the valley — We aid 

 a trading caravan — March to a dried-up lake — Eeturn to the Guaso Nyuki — 

 Further hunting adventures — Qualla' s return and account of his trip — Return 

 to Nyemps — Preparations for the farther journey — We are off again — The Suk 

 are coming ! — Back to Nyemps. 



]^EAR the banks of the Guaso Nyuki, the brick-red waters of 

 which flow to Lake Baringo along a deep channel hollowed out 

 of the loamy soil, rose a parched-up dusty thorn-hedge en- 

 closing a few huts and tents. Within and without the bound- 

 aries of the camp were a few isolated acacias with scanty 

 foliage. This was the Count's settlement, now almost deserted, 

 and near to it was a smaller enclosure belonging to the trading 

 caravan which had parted from us in Turuka, whilst some 

 hundred paces further on, at the very edge of the stream, we 

 could see the Wakwafi village of Nyemps Mdogo or Little 

 Nyemps, its huts protected by a strong and lofty fence. The 



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