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spring, wliicli was called Ngare Dabascli. Our men, too, had 

 found six elephants' tusks, a proof that the district was often 

 frequented by elephants. The Count devoted the day to 

 hunting, but the only traces of game he saw were the fresh 

 spoors of a lion and the old ones of some elephants. In 

 his wanderings he came upon the remains of three kraals, 

 apparently but recently deserted, and Lembasso thought that 

 they were those of some of the Eandile who had been pillaged 

 by the Turkana. 



The struggle which had so recently taken place on the 

 western slopes of Mount Kulall was doubtless the cause that no 

 natives dared to visit us here, though we remained three days. 

 We were therefore the more delighted when late one afternoon 

 a goat suddenly appeared on one of the heights hard by. We 

 were just about to hunt her, her brown colour leading us to 

 take her for an antelope, when her continuing to graze quietly 

 in spite of all the noise in camp, led to our finding out our 

 mistake. This goat, which had probably belonged to the stolen 

 flocks of the Eandile, allowed us to catch her quite easily, and 

 she was added to our own small herd. To complete her story 

 I will add here that she gave birth to a young one the next 

 day, and for the rest of our journey supplied us with a bowl 

 of good fresh milk every day. Her gentle affectionate ways 

 endeared her to us all, and even in the terrible times of famine 

 through which we had to pass together, we never thought of 

 sacrificinof her. 



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Monday, March 12. — We left the i^^gare Dabascli to return to 

 the shore of the lake, rea(;hing it after three hours' march. As we 

 approached it the scenery became more and more dreary, and we 

 were once more surrounded with sand, scorise, and debris, whilst 

 the east wind still blew with undiminished force. We made 

 many interesting geological observations by the way, noting at 

 the beginning of the march some perpendicular white walls^ 



