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them except in exchange for all the cattle we needed. They 

 begged us then just to give' them a specimen of the working of 

 our rain medicine, and they would give us a few goats as a 

 reward. Unfortunately we were unable to meet their wishes, 

 and the shauri ended without any definite result. 



So far we had bought 16 donkeys and 150 goats and 

 sheep, but of the latter one-half had been already eaten, and 

 the natives were becoming much less ready to sell, so that it 

 was pretty evident to us that we should not get anything like 

 the supply of food we had expected here. We must manage 

 somehow to get at least eight days' provisions before leaving 

 Turkana, for it would take us that time to cross the unin- 

 habited wilderness between Ngamatak and Suk. 



To leave no stone unturned the Count decided to send a few 

 men to the Laremett of the Trrawell, although the natives 

 assured him that there was no dhurra to be had there. How- 

 ever that might be, we should at least get the food we needed 

 on the trip. I offered to accompany the expedition, and the 

 next morning started with Qualla and Sokoni, the latter acting 

 as interpreter, and seventy men. Late the evening before an 

 old man had come into camp bringing four sheep, and, his 

 kraal being near the Trrawell, we were glad to secure him as a 

 guide. The old fellow, whose name was Lemagori, wore his 

 hair in the Turkana fashion, but for all that he came from 

 Nyemps, and had been driven away from it by misfortune some 

 twenty -five years before. It was lucky for us that his wander- 

 ings had brought him here, for he was ever so much brighter 

 and more useful than any Turkana would have been. As we 

 came from and were going back to Nyemps, we could take 

 greetings from him to his own people, and from the first he 

 looked upon us as friends, so that we were soon on the very 

 best of terms. 



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