AT A HEIGHT OF 15,350 FEET 



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this figure can be looked upon as the approximate height 

 which this part, the truncated cone, of Kenia reaches. Fog 

 very soon began to gather and the temperature varying between 

 + 4-5° and +7° Centigrade tried my companion too much, so 

 after taking some boihng-point observations, I started at three 

 o'clock to return to my people, passing on the way another 

 little lake with a westerly trend which had escaped my notice 

 going up. We did not stop anywhere again, but got back to 

 the tent about six o'clock in the evening. 



' The next morning we returned to our old camping-place in 

 the bamboo thicket, and on the way down I was fortunate 

 enough to shoot a dwarf gazelle covered with greyish-brown 

 hair. On the 24th we reached our lowest Kenia camp, and the 

 next day started for Ndoro, finding the scenery wonderfully 

 improved by the quantities of rain which had fallen, the 

 previously barren steppes being now bright with fresh green 

 grass and many-hued flowers. The wet weather had also 

 driven the wild animals down to the plains ; countless herds of 

 buffaloes, zebras, and antelopes were roaming about them, and 

 the lions dwelling in the numerous caves at the base of the 

 mountain must have been having a very good time of it.' 



So far Count Teleki. Of course our stay in Ndoro was now 

 nearly at an end, the supplies of food from the Wakikuyu had 

 almost ceased during the last few days, and it would not do to 

 depend on any considerable increase in the stores already 

 collected. It was time to break up our camp, and I could not 

 resist my longing to see something of Kenia from a little 

 nearer, so I begged for three days' delay so that I might at 

 least get as far as the belt of forest and the bamboo thicket. 



It rained unceasingly the day of the Count's return, and the 

 morning of the 27th was dull and threatening, but I could not 

 bear to delay, and started for Kenia with Maktubu as guide 

 and thirty men. After a long march over grassy, gently 



