Archive image from page 244 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 A TURKANA LYGONANI 229 was a little water in a trench on one side, evidently left by a recent heavy shower, but some 1,000 paces further on the channel was quite dry again. We camped beneath the shade of a group of acacias on the left bank at a height of about 1,450 feet above sea-level. There were probably villages in the neighbourhood, but we coul
Archive image from page 244 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 A TURKANA LYGONANI 229 was a little water in a trench on one side, evidently left by a recent heavy shower, but some 1,000 paces further on the channel was quite dry again. We camped beneath the shade of a group of acacias on the left bank at a height of about 1,450 feet above sea-level. There were probably villages in the neighbourhood, but we could not see them. Soon after we had pitched our tents, however, the camp was filled with Turkana of every age, and these people being the very noisiest we ever met with, the wood soon echoed with their shouts, whilst the way in which a dozen war- riors advanced to greet us resembled the charge of an enemy rather than the peaceful wel- come we knew it to be meant for. With up- lifted spears and shields and ape-like gestures they sprang towards us, hiding behind every bit of cover they came to, to dash out again the next minute. If a baboon had been carried off by a leopard or other wild beast, his comrades might have come to his rescue some- thing in this style. After these preliminary contortions, however, the warriors squatted quietly down and waited for a present. Soon afterwards an old man came into camp who told us he was the Lygonani. A Burkeneji woman, who had joined us here, told us that the Turkana have an upper and under Leibon and three Lygonani. The highest of the three last has charge of the camels, the second of the cattle, and the third, the one
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