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men under Maktubu to Elgeyo, to try and buy food, Muyuji 

 Hamis and three Askari belonging to the trading caravan act- 

 ing as guides. 



The Count did not find very much game in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the camp ; so, leaving only twenty men to 

 guard it, he went some three days' journey further south, where 

 he found a reed and papyrus swamp stretching away to the 

 mountains shutting in Lake Baringo. This swamp is fed 

 chiefly by two hot springs ( + 39° Centigrade) rising at the foot 

 of the ridge, and by a little lukewarm brook which issues 

 from one of the lateral valleys and flows from south to north. 

 The district was a perfect paradise for wild animals of every 

 kind, with verdant meadows on the south-east ; sandy barren 

 tracks for ostriches on the south-west ; steep, rugged rocks such 

 as antelopes and zebras love ; slime baths for buffaloes and 

 rhinoceroses, and shady thickets of bush as resting-places 

 alongside of the brook. During the three days the Count 

 spent there, he brought down one buffalo, one rhinoceros, six 

 kobus antelopes, two large kudus, and one wild boar. He shot 

 the bufialo and rhinoceros on the same day. He had been up 

 betimes, and had climbed a ridge to get a look round, passing 

 on his way two lions, who made ofi" before he could fire. From 

 his vantage-ground he soon spied two buffalo bulls amongst 

 the tall rushes, but had scarcely got down to the swamp before 

 a rhinoceros dashed out of it. The Count received him with a 

 shot in the shoulder which made him turn tail and rush off ; 

 but the noise of the firing had disturbed the bulls, who 

 came out together, and one of them exposing his flank as he 

 advanced a little beyond the other. Count Teleki fired again, 

 and followed the wounded animal, finding to his great surprise 

 both it and the rhinoceros lying dead on the ground a short 

 distance off. He shot the two kudus on the mountain the 

 same day. Amongst the antelopes killed in this expedition 



