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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
made off. The only game bagged during this journey 
was one partridge and a couple of guinea fowl of the 
horned species. 
We encamped near a small stream on a picturesque 
spot on the S.E. slope of the Ndara range, the hills 
forming a semicircle on three sides of us. The scenery 
here is tine and bold, the range ending abruptly at the 
S.W. in a precipice of sheer rock, about 4500 feet deep, 
which looks as if it had been cut with a knife. In the 
middle of the semicircle a cupola rises some 5000 feet, 
while to the south lies a vast and undulating plain dotted 
about with trees and clumps of bush, only broken 
towards the S.E. by the inhabited table of Mount 
Kisigau, which is 7000 feet above the sea level, and 
about thirty-five miles distant from the hills of Ndara. 
The summits of the Ndara hills are also inhabited by 
a people called Wa-teita, and Mr. Wray, a missionary, 
has devoted his services to their benefit by living 
amongst them. In the afternoon H-ascended the 
hill pass and visited him with the view to arranging 
about food for the caravan, for our supplies were now 
exhausted, and we had several sick men we were anxious 
to leave under his care. The climate since leaving 
Maungu had changed completely; the elevation of our 
camp was 2300 feet, and the nights were quite cold, for 
we had now entirely got rid of the muggy and moisture¬ 
laden atmosphere of the coast region. 
It was most amusing to hear the orders being given 
out every night by CaCeche, the head-man, who at 
about seven o’clock took up his position by the loads, 
