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to rest, however, and two days later lie was again on the way 

 to Tarawanda with thirty men. 



At this time the Chnrch Missionary station at Mochi, on 

 Kilimanjaro, was in regular monthly postal communication with 

 Mombasa. Only small weights, I believe, of from about twenty- 

 two to twenty-six pounds, were carried in each parcel ; but the 

 transit was effected in the remarkably short time of five days, 

 and as the post always touched at Taveta, we were able to get 

 a good many necessary articles by its means. 



It took us al)out a week to get everything straight in the 

 caravan, but after that we had leisure for other occupations, 

 and Count Teleki availed himself of it to go off for five days' 

 hunting near Lake Jipe, with the results recorded in the 

 following extracts from his journal : — 



' May 27. — I started with thirty men in the direction of our 

 former camp by the lake, and I had hardly left the forest of 

 Taveta behind me before I brought down two Mpala antelopes 

 from a considerable distance. We reached the old camp at 

 four o'clock in the afternoon. 



' May 28. — We marched nearly to the southern end of the 

 lake and camped, passing on the way the remains of a recently 

 killed colossal elephant, which had already been deprived of 

 its tusks by the Wandorobbo, or Wakemba. My bag to-day 

 consisted of six guinea-fowls and an East African partridge. 

 The weather was beautiful after all the rain, the sky cloudless, 

 the sun very hot in the day, but the nights were cool. 



' May 29 . — With Maktubu, Bedue, and the Somal, Mahommed 

 and Kharsclio, who formed my usual hunting-staff, I now scoured 

 the wild bush on the east of the lake. The game was unusually 

 slij^, and it was only after a lot of trouble that we brought 

 down two Mpala antelopes. Then the lynx-ej-ed Bedue spied 

 a rhinoceros some 800 paces off under the shade of a solitary 

 l)usli. We approached cautiously till we were about forty paces 



