Archive image from page 253 of Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie; a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in eastern equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 discoveryoflakes02hhne Year: 1894 238 THROUGH TUEKANA AND SUK our guide Lembasso, who knew how much tobacco was sought after in Turkana, really had quite a good supply of it, which he had got in Eeshiat in exchange for our various presents to him of beads. He was all the time laugh- ing in his sleeve at us, and amused himself with bargaining for thirty goats at a time. In addition t
Archive image from page 253 of Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie; a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in eastern equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 discoveryoflakes02hhne Year: 1894 238 THROUGH TUEKANA AND SUK our guide Lembasso, who knew how much tobacco was sought after in Turkana, really had quite a good supply of it, which he had got in Eeshiat in exchange for our various presents to him of beads. He was all the time laugh- ing in his sleeve at us, and amused himself with bargaining for thirty goats at a time. In addition to sheep and goats the natives often brought us dried fish for sale, and on one occasion two quite freshly caught, some sixteen inches long, resembling herrings in form and colour. On the afternoon of our second day here we received a visit from fifteen old men from Gat err, a district lying further west at the base of the Doenye Erok. The} begged us to go, not as the Count had intended, to the Lare- mett of the Kerio, but to Gaterr, as most of the native settlements were there, and we could buy much more cattle. Moreover there was neither hay nor dhurra to be NATIVE OF TUEKANA. J had in Laremett, for the rain still held back. We had been told much the same thing before, some of the Turkana assuring us that this year not one grain of dhurra was to be had throughout the country, whilst others asserted just the contrary. When the people of the Kerio valley found that we were thinking of going to Gaterr, they tried to turn us from our purpose, telling us that we might certainly find plenty of Elgume there, but no cattle, grass, or water, which
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