In
The Meantime The Poor Fellow, Who Appeared
Starving - There Was A Sore Famine Among The
Natives Of The District At The Time - Was Given
Food And Drink, And Made A Ravenous Meal.
In
the evening I had a long talk with him in
broken Swahili round the camp fire, and obtained
some insight into many of the strange and
barbarous customs of the Masai, to which
interesting tribe he belonged.
In the morning I started off betimes, taking
my .303 rifle and being accompanied by Mahina
with the 12-bore shot-gun, and by another Indian
carrying the necessary food and water. Our
Masai guide, whose name we found to be Lungow,
seemed to be quite certain of his way, and led us
across the rolling plains more or less in the
direction in which the railway was to run, but
some miles to the right of its centre-line. The
march was full of interest, for on the way we
passed within easy range of herds of wildebeeste,
hartebeeste, gazelle, and zebra. I was out strictly
on business, however, and did not attempt a
shot, reserving that pleasure for the homeward
trip. Late in the forenoon we arrived at Lungow's
pond - a circular dip about eighty yards in
diameter, which without doubt had contained
water very recently, but which, as I expected
to find, was now quite dry. A considerable
number of bones lay scattered round it, whether
of "kills" or of animals which had died of thirst
I could not say.
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