THE ATHI 
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CH. IV] 
went slowly forward, through the morning, and through 
the burning heat of the equatorial noon, until in mid¬ 
afternoon we came to the tangled tree growth which 
fringed the half-dried bed of the Athi. Here I off- 
saddled for an hour; then, mounting, 1 crossed the 
river bed where it was waterless, and before evening fell 
I rode up to Juja Farm. 
