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themselves and tlieir weapons about, evidently expecting to 

 overawe us, but tlieir ape-like proceedings only provoked 

 shouts of laughter from our side, though we could not help ad- 

 miring the pluck with which they faced a party of strangers 

 so far outnumbering themselves. 



THREE TURKANA WARRIORS DASH DOWN TOWARDS US. 



Our further march led us over a flat plateau strewn with 

 sharp-edged debris, and without a scrap of vegetation, ending 

 towards sunset near a Turkana kraal, by which we camped. 

 During the last stage we had seen the cattle being driven 

 hastily away from every direction, so that we were not sur- 

 prised at finding the village almost forsaken. But the panic 



