COUNT TELEKI AS A DOCTOR 



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disappeared amongst them, and the leader was not only 

 stared at and touched by everyone — the girls especially being 

 immensely struck with his shoes, which they took for hoofs 

 —but he was expected to work miracles as a doctor by 

 healing all the natives sick with fever, and hundreds of 

 oxen smitten with anthrax. He found alum, of which he 

 had a large quantity with him, very useful ; he also recom- 

 mended better grass for the cattle, and discovered that strips 

 of paper and old discharged and discoloured rockets made 

 first-rate charms. 



The next inarch, which only took two hours, brought the 

 party to Upuni, a well-known halting-place for trading cara- 

 vans, already visited in 1883 by Dr. G. Fischer; but beyond 

 this point the course of the Pangani was quite unexplored. 

 There were plenty of big game in the neighbourhood, and 

 Count Teleki shot one zebra, one water-buck, and three 

 Mpala antelopes. 



Accompanied by many Masai warriors, Count Teleki now 

 made a forced march to Same, our appointed rendezvous, 

 across dreary sandstone districts with here and there some 

 fairly luxuriant vegetation, but entirely without water- — a 

 terribly severe strain upon the as yet untrained men, who 

 vainly sought for the precious fluid in the dried-up holes, 

 many of them, as we have seen, succumbing altogether. 



The mountains near Same were uninhabited, so that the men 

 had to get their food from Muanamata, which delayed us two 

 days more. We employed the time in shooting expeditions, 

 with very small results, for I only brought down an eland 

 or two ; but our hunting led to a very unexpected result. 

 I had killed one old male and sorely wounded another, which, 

 however, went off with the rest of the herd. I followed 

 the animal a long way, but at last had to give him up, as he 

 was taking me too far from the camp. On my way back I 



