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being mostly determined by water. Every night 

 they surrounded themselves with a corral, or 

 rude abbatis, and they lighted huge fires against 

 the wild beasts. I did not hear that any of the 

 party died. My informants could tell me no- 

 thing concerning the giant snow-mountain, 

 Ndur-Kenia/ that exceptional volcano, still ac- 

 tive, when distant 6° from the sea, which would 

 postulate a large lacustrine region, possibly the 

 Baringo or Behari-ngo. They had never heard 

 of the Tumbiri or Monkey river, flowing to the 

 N. West ; of the direct communication with the 

 Upper Nile, or of other geographical curiosities 

 whose existence the study of the interior during 

 the last few years has either confirmed or an- 

 nulled. Yet they were acute and not incurious 

 men. One of them, Mohammed bin Ahmad, had 

 kept a journal of his march, carefully noting the 

 several stages. The late M. Jomard, President of 

 the French Geographical Society, had been in- 



^ The reports forwarded by the Eev. Mr Wakefield render 

 it very probable that Mount Kenia is the Domyo Ebor, 

 ' White Mountain,' the block rising north of Kikuyu, and 

 almost in a meridian with Kilima-njaro. Moreover, a native 

 traveller has lately described a mass of 30 to 40 craters in the 

 Njemsi country, south of the Baringo or Bahari-ngo Lake ; the 

 apex of the mountains being the Doenyo Mburo, alias the Ki- 

 rima ja Jioki (Mountain of Smoke), heard of by Dr Krapf 

 (Church Miss. Int., p. 234. 1852.) 



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