. The story of Africa and its explorers. rveysand ethnolog-ical researches in Masaiiand, visited theMasai living beyond the borders of the Nguru country,at that time only known by hearsay {Proceedl?i(/.<t of thelUyal Gcofimphical Socirtij, 1883, p. T)!?). 308 ^E STORY OF AFiaCA. young Scot was about to penetrate. As forthe region lying beyond, nothing was knownby direct observation, geographers having to be content with the rousrhitineraries of Sadi and other traders, compiledby the Eev. Mr. Wakefield, a veteran EastAfrican missionary, who, in 1861, establishedthe United Free Methodist Miss
. The story of Africa and its explorers. rveysand ethnolog-ical researches in Masaiiand, visited theMasai living beyond the borders of the Nguru country,at that time only known by hearsay {Proceedl?i(/.<t of thelUyal Gcofimphical Socirtij, 1883, p. T)!?). 308 ^E STORY OF AFiaCA. young Scot was about to penetrate. As forthe region lying beyond, nothing was knownby direct observation, geographers having to be content with the rousrhitineraries of Sadi and other traders, compiledby the Eev. Mr. Wakefield, a veteran EastAfrican missionary, who, in 1861, establishedthe United Free Methodist Mission amongthe Wa-Nika and Galla tribes at Jomvu, his way to Lake Victoria, having been com-pelled to return after reaching the volcaniccountry around Lake Naivasha, half as big asLake Zurich, and 6,500 feet above the sea(p. 802). This sheet is surrounded by splendidpasture-lands. Yet, though fed by two smallrivers and, like so many lakes in this sectionof Central Africa, without outlet, its watersare said to be pleasant to the taste, and. Kimawenzi. THE KILIMANJARO EANGE. {From a Photograph hy Mr. Thomas Stevens.) near Mombasa, and at Ribe and Ndara,some miles inland (p. 131), and by hislabours had added to our knowledge of thehinterland of the region in £3,000 to pay his way, and Martin, aMaltese sailor, to help him, Thomson under-took to do (and did) what had been foundimpossible by so many experienced prede-cessors. He learned, indeed, by rumourson the road, that Dr. Fischer, sent bythe Hamburg Geographical Society (p. 295),had started ahead of him. But the Germantraveller, though he penetrated the Masaistronghold, did not, we have seen, e^o far on abound with hippopotami. Crocodiles, how-ever, were not observed. No wonder, therefore, that Mr. Stanley gaveThomson the significant advice before leavingEngland, Take a thousand men or make yourwill! But between the 15th of March, 1883,and the 2nd of June, 1884, the period duringwhich he was engaged on his task, tho
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