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THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT 



CHAP. 



Guaso Nyiro, in a northwesterly direction, until it 

 reaches Lake Rudolph. From our camp on Lolokwi 

 we could see Mount Gerguess, at a distance of ten 

 miles, rising abruptly from the plain in a series of 

 jagged and forest-covered peaks. The summit of this 

 mountain is 10,000 feet above the sea-level, and it is 

 said to be inhabited by several bands of Wanderobbo 

 who live solely upon honey, and upon no occasion ven- 

 ture forth from the fastnesses of their mountain home 

 to the plain below. 



From Gero^uess the line of the General Matthews 

 range stretches almost unbroken to Lake Rudolph. 

 Its principal peaks are Mallon, Lassuran, Merkeben, 

 Doto, Saddim, and Myiro. The old Wanderobbo told 

 me that he had spent his entire life in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lolokwi, and only on rare occasions had vis- 

 ited the banks of the Guaso Nyiro; consequently he 

 was unacquainted with any roads to the north. How- 

 ever, he had heard his brothers talk about different 

 roads, and he appeared quite willing to tell me all he 

 knew about them. He said that during the rainy sea- 

 son it was possible to follow the line of the moun- 

 tains (meaning the General Matthews range) to Lake 

 Rudolph; but other roads were also possible during 

 the rains, particularly one, via Saramba and Marsabit. 

 Those were the only roads to the north he had ever 

 heard of. 



As to the Rendile, he said that some of the mem- 

 bers of his village had lived among that tribe, but 

 that he had never seen them. He thought they lived 

 somewhere between Saramba and Marsabit. He had 

 heard that the Rendile were very bad people, particu- 



