(80) reached at 1 P.K, the country was covernd by tell grass. 
descent & valley filled thickly with *lat-topped acacias extended to the 
the yinteau—several x seis Se the Haroke The 0 buel say 
bushbuek which rén ei 4in 2h vawiea of me, and escapec Vent ont 
with J. | ie &t% dusk to yet lang very email bate flew about but 
they were g0 close and quick that we secured none. Thete are “ very small 
vespertillio which were found af the G. Myiro where several were seoured. 
away. Wo sign of game wes seen in : aeaoin belt nor were ang tracks 
or trails discovered. “he next few miles brought us $0 a fine pransy 
valley in which a populated linsad renyata was the most consapicuons objects 
We arrived here at 3 Pi. and took e side trip of 4 miles down the valley 
to the water and watered our horses. “he safari went streicht on. After 
passing through several tangled forests and some open meadows we came to 
the eastern edge of the Mean and descended the steep slopes on an 014 Nasal 
cattle trail of considerable {S2) width and depth. Half way dovm we turned 
40 the north and skirted the flank of the plateaus. At dark we arrived 
at a dry streem bed where we were forced to mke @ hasty epmp. The 
water very seldom fails in this creek but at this time none eould be 
found anywhere in ites bed. 11: “he next morning at daybreak we were 
away agnin heading directly for Lake Vaivashea and skirting the Man slopes 
The way led through very long grace, shoul high end throush occas ional 
raviness At noon & small found in one of these and here we 
stopped and gave all the porters water and tine to cook their posho. At 
2 P.M. we continued on our way and reached the Leke at Fockley's farm 
about 5 Peli, Here we camped for the night. On the way over cons idereble 
rhino dung and beds were seen also 6 single vaterbuck by E.R. Very Little 
sien of game was seen anywhere. (83) On the arial hills about the lake 
of the fluted euphorbias with tell stretgnt stemlixe plans wero 86eN. 
Near the lnke margin large penne of the yellow-barked Acaola preva ii, 
some of the trees reaching & height of 60 faet. The gyay sage bush con 
tinued down to the lake or rather tno nhilis about th : “he flat- 
topped acacia seemed to be Limited ta the slopes of the Kau dovm to 7500 
Left Hockley's 
feet and up to 9000 but only on the cnstern slope. 
farm at 9 eli. witli snfari end trekked over to Attenbery'’s farn which 
AAS echt RC ae Sale aN 
July ® 1909. 
(685) is 6 miles sonthwest. “he country near the iske is very dry and the soil 
is riddled with the burrows of the hemboo ret. No gemen frase was secn 
anywhere it the watersedgre siizting the large beds of papyrua. 
Passed through several froves of Jerre vellow-barked ROROIAS. aA vellow 
flowered bush compositae like She Guetanote was comion Alongs Our Ways 
Saw no game or any evidence of any. T3: Taha y Heh. and R.J.0,. Went ont 
in the lake for hippo with Atthenberry’s launch. 4.8 ot # cow which 
in three feet of water and was soon recovered. 7.8. shot @ « whieh 
sank and was not recovered. 7.2. sav two others, one as 50 yards and th @ 
other farther away. J.A.L. oenght meny of the small gerbdilis like those 
Gunso “yiro, he also shot A 2 steinbuck, fx. He shot 
laree ¢ Papio and a black Keriwoula hat. 14: Spent the 1 morning sk iming 
2 
and skeletonizing the hippo shot by H.R he beast was a ¥ immature 
without any apparent mermee end with no embryo, apperently 6 virgins 
She stomach 
ined only erass. (85) his grasa ts the kind found about the dry 
ra ‘ 
rand is not ® swarp rariohy. Leaches were found abundantly in 
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the hippos mouth. They are very cormor in the lake end the porters who 
waded about in the lake were envered mith them. Shot e young * Gerco- 
and MR. went out for hippo but returned without 
mithecus, T.%. 
prvpecws 
certain results. They ‘ired at two but it} was fo late, 4-30 P.M. that 
they aid not have time to rise before dark as three hours is usually 
Chen oh 
required. h. 8. shot 4 large 2 hippo about 1 F.i. near the edge of 
the lake in water 3 inches deop in the pepyrus grovth. when hit she came 
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forward with open month seeking cover in the waters of the lake but 7.2. 
Pp 
in ae me forward Fy he dronved stone dead 4 con~ 
put in three shots as she came fnywaré and ehe dropped stone ead & 
tance from the boat. Caught two d Genette cats, in my traps 
Mme of these 1 nna sitting wp as high as the ran would allow 
it (86) in one of the bushes to which the trap was fastened. 
. Seas It4§te Mae a tn + 
eenent a Lophnromys, & [us arhoring, @ anal Leppada like us and & sree 
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s Pee in "i 5 + +54 
mouse like Mus arbortus, a one duiker this All. bus could not ge% a 
mouse like Tus arbor! ker 
shot at it. 16; Pulled the hip ut snd skinned it Im the 4 "he 
animal, thouch fully adult with well worn molars and large Ganinee ned 
A 4 7 ana e . ‘ oe tn we 
yery small wudinentary mame ann © wink 6 nel that copuletion was 

