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no warriors ; and from them we learnt that we should not 

 come to their people in any numbers till we reached Lake 

 Nyiri. 



4 Malago Kanga was a good 4-J hours' march from Ngare 

 Kongai, and we got there the next morning before noon. The 

 otherwise uninteresting landscape is a perfect paradise for the 

 hunter. Out of a herd of four zebras I passed on the march, 

 I shot three. The first fell on its nose as if struck by lightning, 

 the second tumbled backwards and died, the third made one 

 spring in the air before it succumbed. Later a mother rhino- 

 ceros and her little one crossed our path. I fired at the former 

 with the 577 Express at a distance of 180 paces. She stag- 

 gered on some 50 paces, and then sank upon her knees dead. 

 Her baby charged me so fiercely when I attempted to ap- 

 proach its mother that I could not spare it, though I should 

 have liked to do so. The mother had the very longest horns 

 I had so far seen. 



' From Malago Kanga, which means the guinea-fowl haunt, 

 Jumbe Kimemeta will go on with twenty men to Lake Nyiri, 

 whilst I shall wait here for the arrival of the rest of the cara- 

 van from Kimangelia.' 



So far Count Teleki ; now to return to Kimangelia. 

 Maktubu and his ninety men had done the march back from 

 the Count's camp in one day, and tired as they were they 

 brightened us up as much as if they had mustered 900 strong. 

 The Zanzibar men were very proud of having come back from 

 dreaded Masailand, and kept their comrades up late telling 

 them of all manner of fabulous adventures and dangers through 

 which they had passed unscathed. They had had plenty of 

 meat too, and looked upon those who had stayed behind with 

 contemptuous pity, showing them some little bits of flesh they 

 had saved for them with an air of high and mighty condescen- 

 sion. It is on such occasions as this that the child-like naivete 



