312 RETURN FROM LAKE BARINGO TO THE COAST 



tlie ringing of the bells. The dancers, who were all young 

 men, stood in two rows opposite each other, and with legs out- 

 straddled, swayed their bodies against each other, keeping time 

 with the music and singing. At the end of each strophe they 

 nodded their heads quickly up and down, their cheeks nearly 

 touching those of their neighbours, looking very much as if 

 they were going to eat each other. 



Following the course of the same valley the next day, we 

 arrived, after an exhausting march, at the frontier of the dis- 

 trict of Kilungo, separated from Iveti by an uninhabited tract, 

 the people of the two provinces being at deadly enmity with 

 each other. 



Kilungo, like Iveti, is mountainous, but, being nearer the 

 coast, its general altitude is lower than that of the more 

 northerly district. At Machako's village we were 5,469, and 

 here only 3,937 feet above the sea-level. 



Iveti consists chiefly of tilted-up gneiss strata, whilst in 

 Kilungo the formations are nearly horizontal ; the former dis- 

 trict is characterised by a bright, often dazzling, red laterite soil, 

 whilst in Kilungo the ground is covered with white, light 

 yellow, or brown sand. There are fewer clearings in Kilungo 

 than in Iveti. 



The natives seemed very noisy and quarrelsome. During 

 our march they tried first to scatter our flocks and herds by 

 loud yells, and then to take possession of some of the stragglers. 

 Qualla, who was fortunately at hand when this manoeuvre was 

 attempted, fired two shots from his Henry-Winchester rifle, 

 which had the desired effect of cooling the ardour of the robbers 

 and driving them away. 



Here, for the first time, the natives showed uneasiness as to 

 the use of our instruments. I was alone some 1,000 paces from 

 the camp, taking some observations with the compass, when 

 the natives began to gather about me, first a few, then a large 



