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CHAPTEE VI 



EETUEN FEOM LAKE BAKING TO THE COAST 



. From July 30 to October 28, 1888 



Eest at Nyemps — Start for home — Across the hunting gromids on the Guaso 

 Nytiki — Along the Subngia and the Dondole Moimtains to Lake Naivasha — In 

 the Highlands of Leikipia — Amongst the Kikuyii once more — In sight of Kibo — 

 Through Ukambani — Description of Ukambani and its people — Crater district 

 south of the Julu range — In Taveta — To Zanzibar — Conch;sion. 



We devoted nine days to rest. Worn out both physically and 

 mentally, we employed this time in thinking over all we had 

 gone through, or in chatting with the ivory traders and natives. 

 The latter annoyed us a good deal by their attempts to steal 

 our animals, but our threat of leaving them if the thefts were 

 continued brought them to reason and restored peace. 



Soon after our arrival a big caravan entered Great Nyemps 

 under the leadership of a Mombasa Arab named AdduUah. A 

 good many visits were exchanged and there were plenty of 

 topics of conversation. This party had been to Ngongo Bagds 

 by way of Ukambani, and then at the request of Kijanja, 

 the former manager of Jumbe Kimemeta's caravan, whom the 

 reader will remember, they had followed our footsteps through 

 Kikuyuland. They had found the natives peaceful and oblig- 

 ing. Our transit of that district had had good results, opening 

 to trade a wide tract of country, which had previously been 

 shunned as if plague-stricken. 



Caravans from Mombasa generally combine trading in 

 slaves with collecting ivory. Pangani caravans also sometimes 



