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the hillside by the great pillar of dust that follows their 
tempestuous rush through the bush. 
At Ngabotok is a colony of Turkana Torobo, who, as soon 
as the herd makes its appearance, turn out and spear as many 
as they possibly can ; they will follow after them for mile 
after mile engaged in a kind of running fight with the great 
beasts, and I am told that upon such occasions they will often 
account for as many as ten or twelve head. The elephants 
do not stop here therefore, but move on to Masol and 
Laterok, where they remain for a time watering at the Kerio, 
and then gradually work their way back to their old grazing 
grounds. 1 
I have said that the Hill Suk are absolutely fearless hunters. 
They tell me that they can only remember one instance 
where one of them was killed by an elephant, and on that 
occasion the man met his death because he lost his head and 
attempted to run away from a charging cow. They maintain 
that, no matter how fierce a charge an elephant may make, 
it is always possible to turn the beast by throwing spears at 
its head, and that so long as a man has courage to face the 
enraged animal it will never charge home. 
All over Baringo district small patches of fly -infected bush 
are to be found ; for instance, one such patch exists about two 
miles south-east of the south-eastern corner of Lake Baringo. 
The two danger zones, however, are the foothills of Loroghi 
and the bush on the Upper Kerio and Weiwei rivers. 
On two occasions I camped for a night at the foot of 
Loroghi. I had with me dogs, camels, donkeys, and a few 
sheep and goats, and on both occasions several of the 
donkeys subsequently died of fly bite, but none of the 
other animals. The natives tell me that camels will 
live almost indefinitely in this region, and that cattle and 
sheep and goats can be kept there several weeks without 
danger, but that it is very fatal indeed for donkeys. 
The Kerio and Weiwei river zone is less infected with fly 
than the Loroghi foothills, but this region also proves very 
fatal to donkeys. Until recently the Suk kept large numbers 
1 These conditions have changed ; there is now a Government station 
at Ngabotok. 
