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my shot did them no harm, as they all scampered off 
through some bush into a plain half a mile beyond. 
I followed them a long distance, but as they were so 
difficult to approach I gave them up, though, had 
I known they were the only specimens of the kind 
I was destined to come across during my wander- 
ings, I would have followed them much farther. 
I knocked down a partridge and a quail, and 
® saw several guinea-fowl, though he did not 
biing any back. We passed through some once 
cultivated ground, long deserted and now overgrown, 
but it was weary work pushing our way through 
the thick grass and rank vegetation, Avith which the 
track Avas quite obscured, during a heat that was most 
oppresswe. After a fourteen miles march Samburu 
was reached, where there is a fair supply of rain water 
filling ciuious excaA^ations in the black rocks : many 
of these holes Avere quite round and of considerable 
depth, and must have been the result of a natural 
and chemical process assisted by the hands of natives, 
aa ho, I imagine, have at some time or other endeaA 7 oured 
to enlarge them. 
Soon after pitching our camp the natives came down 
in considerable numbers from two adjoining villages to 
sell food, and Ave were able to obtain pineapples, kundi, 
(a small kind of bean), in addition to foAvls and eggs, 
all of which came in most useful. The name of these 
people, Avho are apparently only just superior to the 
Wanyika, is Doruma. They wore the same class of 
ornaments, but the Avomen affected a dirty sort of linen 
