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of food here, its absence, taken with the failure of the dhurra 

 crop, must have added greatly to the sufferings of the 

 Turkana. 



We went on in the afternoon through deep shifting sand 

 along the river bed, arriving an hour before sunset at a rock 

 reservoir several feet deep, containing a little thick offensive- 

 smelling water belonging to Lemagori's kraal. Though the 

 general character of this district differed from the rest of 

 Turkana visited by us, it remained as dreary and uninteresting 

 as ever, a fringe of palms along the stream being the only 

 vegetation . 



We were once more near Lake Eudolf, and the Doenye 

 Erok range being lower at its northern end, we obtained a 

 fairly extensive view, looking down on the east on to the flat 

 acacia-covered district at the mouth of the Kerio, whilst on the 

 north we could see the other side of Lake Eudolf, even 

 recognising the two cones near our camping-place of March 13 

 as well as Mount Longendoti. Before us, on the route we were 

 about to traverse, rose the low height of Losagam, the peculiar 

 roof-like formation of which we had noticed during our march 

 along Lake Eudolf, and which had served as a regular land- 

 mark in estimating the breadth of the lake from our various 

 camping-places. Beyond stretched a flat district, bounded far 

 away in the distance by a low mountain chain. On the south- 

 west we could distinctly make out the two characteristic conical 

 peaks of the Doenye Erok rising up from amongst a number 

 of others. With the help of many an observation, taken during 

 our march to Eeshiat, these various features of the country 

 had been entered on our map, when we had little dreamt that 

 we should ever be actually amongst them ! 



The people of the village near brought us some cattle for 

 sale, of which we were very glad, as we had no food with us, 

 and Lemagori introduced us to his children, including a very 



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