CHAPTER VI 
AFTER ELEPHANT AT BARINGO 
Two bull-elephants having been reported in the 
neighbourhood, we rested a couple of days at Baringo 
awaiting further news ; but the native trackers sent out 
to locate the elephants having failed to do so, we 
resumed our march northwards. On the night of 
August 20 we were encamped beneath the conical mass 
of Njoro-llimalo (or Koodoo-Kop, as we called it, owing 
to the stony mountains around being frequented by 
these superb antelopes), when at 9 p.m. three “ askaris,” 
or native soldiers, came into camp with a letter from 
Mr. Archer at Baringo, saying that an Njemusi hunter 
had brought in news of a huge old solitary bull-elephant 
which had taken up his quarters near Njemps, on the 
further side of the lake. Archer added that, as he was 
then proceeding on duty to Njemps, he would be glad 
to accompany me thither, provided I returned to Baringo 
at once. 1 
This necessitated an entire recasting of plans, but 
arrangements were soon made, and an hour before 
daylight on the morrow, under a waning moon, I left 
my brother to continue his solitary journey northwards 
to the Mugitani River, while I set out on return for 
Baringo. Arriving there (four hours’ march) in time for 
breakfast, Archer and I at once started for Njemps, 
re-crossing first the mountain-spur, and then the flat 
plains towards the Molo River. This river, we were 
told, was only waist-deep, so we proceeded to walk 
through, sending some natives in advance to shift 
1 See sketch-map at p. 75, infra. 
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