.168 T A VET A AND MOUNTS KILIMANJARO AND MEIiU 



the peculiarities of which have already been described. We 

 shot seven of them. 



Leaving the forest, we came to the lower course of the 

 Kirerema, here about thirty feet wide and six deep. A 

 slippery trunk was the only bridge, and the men were able to 

 cross comfortably with care, but the steep, crumbling banks 

 made it very difficult to get the animals over. We now met a 

 good many natives, who reproached us for our treatment of the 

 monkeys. However, seeing that we took no notice of their re- 

 marks, they dropped the subject and soon became friends with 

 us. The Colobus guereza, rare everywhere but in the Kahe 

 forest, is much prized by the Masai and the other natives of 

 the Kilimanjaro districts, as its skin is used in their war 

 paraphernalia. 



The natives here brought us gifts, the finest bananas I had 

 ever seen, and led us to a camping-place, more beautiful 

 even than any in Taveta, in a meadow bounded by the wood, 

 from which we had an uninterrupted view of Kilimanjaro. 

 We liked our quarters so much that we- remained in them 

 another day. The natives were neither importunate in their 

 attentions, nor did they beg. They brought bananas, beans, 

 maize, potatoes, choroco, and beautifully clear honey for sale. 

 There were also plenty of goats but they were very dear. 

 Our merikani was most in demand, but our hosts were will- 

 ing to accept powder, thick iron wire (Sambai), and small 

 Jagga beads ; they did not, however, care for the pretty mboro 

 and ukuta beads. The people of Kahe belong to the same family 

 as the Wataveta, and resemble them in appearance, customs, 

 &c. ; they also speak the same Bantu dialect. 



In the afternoon Count Teleki went to hunt monkeys, and 

 brought back five more skins, so that we now had a dozen, which 

 had to be most carefully prepared to preserve them uninjured- 



We should have been very sorry to leave Kahe if the 



