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14,500 feet (see Illustration No. 3). And here, half-way up 
the steep slope of stones and boulders, our second find was made. 
A tawny, khaki-coloured object lying upon the grey waste of 
boulders turned out, on inspection, to be the almost intact 
carcase of a buffalo. It was as hard as wood, and was probably 
frozen solid. The eyes had been attacked by birds, but other- 
wise it was uninjured. The horns measured thirty inches on 
the inside of the curve. How this solitary animal came to die 
there, at an altitude of something like 5000 feet above the 
usual haunts of its species, is a mystery which the writer is 
content to record but unable to explain. 
Mr. Mackinder has mentioned the discovery of a buffalo 
skeleton at an altitude of 14,000 feet on the east side of the 
mountain. 
Unless further rock-slides, skating down the very steep 
surface of the glacier, have covered the carcase since the 
accompanying photograph (Illustration No. 4) was taken, it is 
still probably available for inspection. Nor need the possi- 
bility of visiting this spot be considered a hopeless one by the 
average resident in, or visitor to, this country. With a care- 
fully picked and well-fed caravan, one can travel from Naivasha, 
on foot all the way, up to the glaciers and hack in a fortnight. 
As this fact becomes more generally known, it may be expected 
that a run up to the glaciers will become the rule with travellers 
and sportsmen in this country, instead of being, as at present, 
an almost unheard-of exception. 
NOTES ON THE FAUNA OF BARINGO DISTRICT 
By Hon. K. Dundas 
The country lying between the River Kerio and the foot 
of the Suk hills is a vast expanse of dense and very thorny 
scrub. Through the centre of this flows the River Krut — 
more familiarly known by its Swahili name Weiwei — on its 
way to its junction with the Tirkwel at Ngabotok. 
Apart from the elephant very little game is to be met with 
in this scrub ; here and there a few Thomsoni or a stray oryx 
