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ACROSS LEIKIPIA 



Kimemeta's, quite enoiigli for all purposes. I left rations for 

 nineteen, and for my party took a number of liealtliy slieep 

 and goats and one grey donkey, in case it should be necessary 

 for any of us to ride. As guides I took Ali Scliaongwe and 

 Juma Mussa. The latter was, it is true, an arch-liar, but he 

 was the only one of our men who knew anything about eastern 

 Leikipia. Of course my promised guide had not turned up 

 either, but this, according to Juma Mussa, mattered little, as 

 we had secured the services of a Leukop by presenting him. 

 with a dmvd, the nature of which cannot be described here. 

 This Leukop led us to the river, and once there we could not 

 fail to find Lake Lorian. 



I did not know our Juma well enough then, and started the 

 next morning quite easy on the point of the right road to take. 

 The reader, however, who looks at the map accompanying these 

 volumes will wonder why we went so far south to get to the 

 Guaso Nyiro, but he must not forget that at this time that map 

 had no existence, and that we were, so to speak, wandering in the 

 dark, our difiiculties being increased by the fact that Thomson, 

 the only traveller before us who had reached the river in ques- 

 tion, had wrongly supposed it to flow in an easterly direction 

 between Kenia and the Doeuyo lol Deika. Anyhow, our guide 

 said he knew the way, and we followed him without hesitation. 



We bore eastwards round the group of heights at the base 

 of which we had camped, and then southwards, as our guide 

 said we must go first to the Guaso Narok. But lightly loaded 

 we stepped briskly on, and in about three hours came to the 

 big kraal we had passed on our way to Subugo, where we 

 halted for a short time. The warriors had just returned from 

 a raid on the Wameru living on the north-east of Kikuyuland, 

 and were now most of them still overcome with fatigue. They 

 gathered about us, however, wrapped in their naiberes, and 

 were not at all aggressive ; indeed the}^ seemed delighted to be 



