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rather overgrown; the lettuces had come up well, the 
radishes were as big as turnips, the potatoes, onions, 
and a few turnips flourishing, but the peas and beans 
nowhere. The day after our return Count Teleki 
reached Taveta, having come by the Pangani route, 
and taken forty days to accomplish the journey. He 
had left many loads behind at Mombasa and Pangani, 
having been rendered short-handed by the desertion 
of numerous porters, and he now had to send back 
men to bring up these loads, which would entail at 
least a delay of two months. 
Pie had already had one fight close to the coast, 
which resulted in his killing nine natives and losing 
two of his own men, while a solitary German resident, 
with his aslcari, stood by and feebly protested in the 
name of the German Government and the German 
East Africa Association. However, in spite of his 
difficulties and labours, both he and his companion, Mr. 
Honel, looked well and hearty, and were in excellent 
spirits; they had compiled a map of the country adjoin¬ 
ing the route they had taken, but must have had some 
difficulty in executing it, as the man who carried the 
box containing all their scientific instruments had 
deserted, and thrown his load into the bush, so their 
only available instruments for the survey were a watch 
and a compass. Count Teleki was full of the Masai 
he had met near the W’Arusha Wa-cini, and said 
they were not to be feared at all, but I rather think 
those he encountered represented a degenerate Masai 
tribe, or chiefly consisted of old men and boys, 
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