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which the Swahilis call Wakwavi, a pastoral people who 
formerly lived side by side with the Masai (to whom they are 
akin), and by which race of marauders they were, after long 
fighting, dispersed. They are now scattered far and wide over 
East Equatorial Africa, and members of the clan may be met 
with living among the different tribes in the most distant 
parts. They are useful as affording means of communication 
with the peoples among whom they have .settled, and whose 
languages they have acquired, for every caravan has some men 
with more or less knowledge of Masai. There are, of course, 
drawbacks to passing all one has to say and the answers 
through two interpreters (one is bad enough, even if efficient), 
and no doubt the meaning is often altered or turned upside 
down ; but in these remote parts, so seldom visited even by 
Swahili traders, one may think oneself lucky to be able to 
communicate at all, however imperfectly, with the inhabitants. 
Lekwais (such was my present interviewer’s name) told 
me that around Bumi, the next district, which we should reach 
on the morrow, were many elephants; and that some had 
been seen that very day by a boy who had come from there. 
One herd, he told me, had its retreat by day in bush growing 
in the lake itself, but might be found outside in the early 
morning ; others were in the habit of coming down to drink 
during the night, and retreating to the back country for the 
hours of daylight. It was from him that I first learnt that 
there was only one river entering the lake, from the north (as 
Dr. Donaldson Smith found and has now made known), and 
not two as had been supposed. Lekwais called this river the 
Warr, but said (as I afterwards myself found) that it had a 
variety of names. 
This elephant news was indeed encouraging ; and I could 
not help thinking continually how very fortunate I had been 
to reach this country so successfully and easily ; my men and 
donkeys all safe and sound, not one having been seriously 
sick or sorry since leaving Nyiro. All through this wide 
