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RETURN TO MOMBASA 
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Tana, where I left them in charge of a civil and intelligent 
headman named Mtiya, and made the best of my way to 
Mombasa with a few men carrying my personal baggage ; 
leaving Abdulla—now promoted to be headman and in whom 
I had perfect confidence—to follow with the ivory. 1 
Author’s Ivory Caravan arriving. 
(From a Photograph by Mr. J. R. W. Pigott.) 
I arrived at the beginning of March 1895, after an absence 
of fourteen months, the caravan getting in nearly a fortnight 
later. 
1 I had to bid adieu to Dr. Kolb, who was not returning direct to the coast just 
then. He subsequently made another journey from Mombasa to Mount Kenia, when he 
succeeded in ascending the mountain, and did much careful geographical work in its 
neighbourhood. An interesting account of this expedition has been published in Dr. A. 
Petermann’s Mitteilungen (42. Band, 1896). 
