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Major L. F. I. Athill sends the following note as an addition to the dis- 
cussion : 
On the south-eastern shores of Lake Rudolf lives a small fish-eating tribe 
called the Elmolo, now reduced to the verge of extinction by raids. Its old 
men relate that many years ago the Elmolo were a large tribe, rich in flocks, 
and ranging over the area, then dry land, which is now covered by the southern 
waters of the lake. One day, when the ancestors of the existing remnant were 
herding their goats near the foot of Mount Kulah, there was a terrible earth- 
quake, and the ground where their fellow-tribesmen were pasturing gave way, 
the waters of the lake rushing in from the north and filling the depression. 
An island, now known as Elmolo or South Island, escaped submergence, 
and from it the smoke of fires continued to rise for some thirty years, after 
which period it was no longer seen. The Elmolo conjecture that during that 
time some survivors of the catastrophe were keeping themselves alive on the 
island by catching the fish which abound in the lake and which form their own 
sfeple diet. The manner in which the tale is told suggests that the eventsj 
t(|ok place only a few generations back, but the Elmolo are incapable ofl 
estimating time beyond the limit of their own experience. To this day Elmolo 
Island remains unexplored, and when it is at last visited it will be of great 
interest to learn whether any traces of former human habitation exist. 
Count Teleki reported that the volcano at the south end of the lake was 
emitting clouds of yellowish smoke in i888. This volcano seems to have been 
extinct for the last eight years at least, but another story told by the Elmolo 
bears witness to its recent activity. They say that the crater is the home of a 
witch-doctor, and that within very recent years they have seen the clouds of 
dust raised by his cattle, and have heard them lowing as he drives them to his 
kraal at sunset. 
The Elmolo are markedly more intelligent than their meat-eating neigh- 
bours. Is this an argument in support of the brain-making properties of a fish 
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