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leave their father's kraal for that of the moran. They wore a 

 kid-skin garment, which covered them from the shoulders to 

 the thighs, and their heads were decked with 

 two long ostrich feathers and the skins of 

 several little birds. 



Contrary to our expectations, the 

 natives brought a good many 

 oxen for sale, and soon the 

 camp was the scene of great 

 activity. This was very 

 irksome to me, as I 

 had for some little time 

 been feeling very un- 

 well. Even in 

 Turuka I had 

 had a good 

 deal of pain, 

 and to-day my 

 symptoms took 

 an acute form, 

 so that, in spite 

 of the great 

 heat in the 

 tent, I had to 

 take to my 

 bed. This was, 

 though I did 

 not know it 

 then, the be- 

 ginning of dysentery and of a long, weary time of suffering for me. 



We pressed on, on August 24, accompanied by a number of 

 Masai women carrying the loads of some of the porters. Small 

 and thin though they were, these natives had wonderful powers 



GESILA'S END. 



