Archive image from page 292 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 TWO WOMEN DKOWKED 277 to the foaming torrent. Maktubu, ever ready to lend a help- ing hand, went to meet them at the most dangerous part, but before they could reach him their strength failed them, they let go the rope, and, in spite of every effort on the part of Maktubu and others, they were swept away before our eyes. Heavy rain prevented our sta
Archive image from page 292 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 TWO WOMEN DKOWKED 277 to the foaming torrent. Maktubu, ever ready to lend a help- ing hand, went to meet them at the most dangerous part, but before they could reach him their strength failed them, they let go the rope, and, in spite of every effort on the part of Maktubu and others, they were swept away before our eyes. Heavy rain prevented our starting before nine o'clock on the 19th, but it held up a little then and we set forth once more. Ten men were still missing, but we dared not risk the lives of the whole party by further delay. We pushed on in an easterly DEATH OF THE TWO BURKENEJI WOMEN. direction, now through fresh green bush thickets, now over flooded meadows, to the undulating base of the chain of hills running parallel with the Kerio, and camped in the afternoon by a little brook in a wood. I had been taken ill with rapidly increasing fever at the beginning of the march and suffered dreadfully all the way, so that I was scarcely sensible when I at last got into camp. Three natives whom we had met had told us that the kraal we were seeking belonged to a chief named Yarra, and was the only one in the neighbourhood.
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