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the same thoughtless want of preparation, when even the ivory 

 obtained at so much cost is immediately transferred, as before 

 related, to the Hindu merchants of Zanzibar, &c. 



The leaders of the caravan now beg'ged Count Teleki to 

 give them a stock of meat which they could dry and take with 

 them for the return journey. Their request was complied with, 

 although it was difficult to see how the already laden porters 

 could carry provisions also on the ten days' march to Miansini. 

 Their plan had been to go on as far as possible with their 

 loads, then to bury them, and push on empty-handed to 

 Kikuyuland, where they hoped to get the necessary supplies. 

 The Count now, however, presented them with all he had 

 brought down the day before, namely, two buffaloes, a rhino- 

 ceros, and a kaama antelope. Unfortunately three badly 

 wounded buffaloes and one rhinoceros had escaped. I had 

 not been able to take part in the hunt as I still had intermit- 

 tent attacks of dysentery which kept me a prisoner in camp. 



We now decided to go one day's march with the traders 

 so as to give them a good supply of provisions for the way at 

 the last moment, and we all started together for the Miwiruni 

 on the 29tli. Later we proposed going to seek a little lake 

 somewhere at the base of the Leikipia plateau which Bedue 

 told us he had visited with Bishop Hannington. Our route 

 led us first through the broad flat valley, then over various 

 heights into a district very like that we had left, through 

 which flowed for a short distance a little brook, ending in a 

 swamp. The entire valley was overgrown with tall green 

 rushes and soft sward. This turned out to be the Miwiruni, 

 and on our way to it the Count shot a rhinoceros and a zebra, 

 enough for one day's ration. We passed c|uantities of game 

 on our way here, chiefly herds of buffaloes, which, startled by 

 our appearance, often seemed about to charge into the long 

 thin line formed by the two caravans, but fortunately they 



