Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . to bringme seventy good bullocks and two hundred sheep. Themany hundred spears, and quivers full of arrows, which thenatives had thrown away in their tiight, were brought tothe camp and burnt,after I had selectedwhat I wanted to addto my ethnologicalcollection. IV) ward sunset adiove of about fourhundred fine donkeys,and about thirty milchcows, wandered up tothe villages, where-upon I sent my boysto choose forty don-keys and three goodcows to add to thecaravan. By the endof the second day afterthe fight, the
Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . to bringme seventy good bullocks and two hundred sheep. Themany hundred spears, and quivers full of arrows, which thenatives had thrown away in their tiight, were brought tothe camp and burnt,after I had selectedwhat I wanted to addto my ethnologicalcollection. IV) ward sunset adiove of about fourhundred fine donkeys,and about thirty milchcows, wandered up tothe villages, where-upon I sent my boysto choose forty don-keys and three goodcows to add to thecaravan. By the endof the second day afterthe fight, the Arborehad brought all theanimals I had ordered, q;lad enouoh to have been let offso easily. Retaining only about sixty pieces of cloth and twentypounds of beads, I gave all the rest of my trading goods tothe Arbore, which quite compensated them for the loss oftheir animals, but not of course for the loss of their pres-tige as warriors. They expressed much surprise that Ihad treated them so liberally, and promised in future tobe friends with any white man who visited their AKHORE WAR HAT. 2 70 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. They told me that north of them were very many littletribes that went about quite naked, and were continuallyfighting one another. The Arbore, therefore, could onlygive me guides as far as the Burle, as they would be killedif they got outside of tlieir own country. We left the Arbore on June 24, after having given themall my old donkeys, twenty-two in number, and a few tiredcamels and oxen. One of my two remaining mules had tobe shot, and the other one I left behind, as it was sufferingso much from the effects of fly-bites. We marched forfive hours very slowly toward the Amar range. Therewere many stops on account of the mass of cattle we weredriving. Cattle which are unaccustomed to being drivenwill mass together and attempt to crush through thebushes on each side of the path as they are urged along,but it is astonishing how quickly they learn
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