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FROM EL B0G01 TO LAKE RUDOLPH 
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high koppie called Murkeben is not, as appears on the maps, 
part of the latter range, but the highest point of an isolated 
rocky ridge half-way between the two. Knowing our way and 
the distance before us, we had no difficulty—by starting about 
noon, marching till sundown, and on again at 4 A.M. —in 
reaching the water at Ongata Barta a little before noon the 
following day. The water I had taken the precaution to have 
Camp under Mount Nyiro, 
(From a Photograph by the Author.) 
planted on our line was much appreciated ; fortunately, too, 
the weather was not very hot, so none suffered. 
We reached the stream which flows out of Donyo le Nyiro 
(that is, Mount Nyiro) early on the 6th November, and camped 
in a pleasant open lawn on its banks. When I came on here 
I expected my main caravan under Abdulla to catch me up 
any day, and hoped to be able to continue the march with the 
whole party in ten days or a fortnight at most. But, through 
a series of untoward events, we were delayed altogether about 
twice that time, and my patience was nearly worn out when, 
