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THROUGH TURKANA AND SUK 



nowhere else, and of wliich I give a sketch. The branches^ 

 standing out stifflj^ from the stem, struck us as especially notice- 

 able. But for the leaf being different, this tree resembled a 

 conifer. 



The day passed over in anxious expectation, and we gazed 

 eagerly and ceaselessly towards the pass through which Qualla 



must come to bring the longed- 

 for supplies. The three zebras 

 had been devoured, skin, 

 bones, and all, and hour after 

 hour passed on without a sign 

 of the relieving force. But at 

 last towards evening the joyful 

 sound of signal shots reached 

 us from the distance, and a 

 little later we saw cattle, goatSy 

 and sheep filing down the 

 mountain slope towards us. 

 Soon the valley echoed with 

 the lowing of the cattle and 

 the joyful shouts and friendly 

 chatter of the men as they 

 exchanged greetings and news. 

 Qualla had accomplished the raid before daybreak, when 

 the cattle were still all together in the kraal. On the sudden 

 onset of our men, who began by driving off the herds minding 

 the cattle, the natives, roused from their sleep, fled away in 

 terror, so that no fighting took place in the village. The cattle 

 were then driven ofi*, Qualla following with a few men at a little 

 distance to protect the rear. Not until two hours afterwards 

 did the natives rally and pursue our men with the stolen cattle. 

 They rushed boldly on, some two hundred in number, till they 

 were about fifty paces off the rear-guard, but they could not stand 



SKETCH OF A PECULIAR TREE MET WITH 

 IN SUK. LEAF NATURAL SIZE. 



