Geography and Ethnology again, 463 
vouring the people wholesale. The Masai thoroughly 
believe in it. On the west of the lake rises El 
doinyo Buri, and on the south the El doinyo Sus, 
both very large mountains. 
From Naivasha, a route branches off to Lekipia, 
a large district occupied by Wakuavi, where a great 
deal of ivory is obtained. The road leads through 
very extensive bamboo forests, and either round or 
over the mountain Satima. The Wasuahili regard 
this route with horror, the forests being very large, 
pathless, ever shrouded in fog and wet, while the 
mountain is so cold that they generally lose some 
of their men. Continuing the main route we are 
following, in six days from Naivasha, over a woody s 
district, they reach the small salt lake Nakuro, and 
in five days more, through the Kikuavi country, called 
El Guasu Ngisu, they arrive at Njemps. The Njemps 
folk are not an important people themselves, but they 
receive strangers kindly, and as their country is sur- 
rounded by more important districts and tribes, the 
caravans take up their quarters in it, making it the 
centre at which they carry on their trade. In and 
around this country are many things of interest. 
Here rises the El doinyo Buri (the Kilima ja Jioki 
of Krapf ), an active volcano, the only one which is 
known in the entire continent of Africa. At the 
bottom of the mountain are many hot, and, indeed, 
boiling springs, for the water is said to be so hot that 
meat is quickly cooked in it. The water tastes of 
sulphur, or soda, or salt, and it probably supplies the 
Nakuro and another lake near at hand, called Ngare 
Sukuta (i.e., bitter water) by the Wakuavi. These 
springs are called in Kikuavi, engoiyek na buri " 
