Archive image from page 356 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 discoveryoflakes01hhne Year: 1894 I SLIP OFF TO THE MOUNTAIN 333 where we were for the next day. As usual, the natives, seeing that we settled down peacefully and had no idea of attacking them, became bolder and bolder, so that at one time a general charge seemed imminent, the war-cry sounding throughout the entire valley. I had slipped out of camp alone with a view to having a look
Archive image from page 356 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 discoveryoflakes01hhne Year: 1894 I SLIP OFF TO THE MOUNTAIN 333 where we were for the next day. As usual, the natives, seeing that we settled down peacefully and had no idea of attacking them, became bolder and bolder, so that at one time a general charge seemed imminent, the war-cry sounding throughout the entire valley. I had slipped out of camp alone with a view to having a look at Mount Kenia, and, creeping through the plantations of beans about the camp, had climbed a hill some 2,300 to 2,600 feet above the camp, when I heard the shouts. Of course I got back as quickly and quietly as I could, and fortunately, thanks to disputes amongst the natives themselves, there was no attack after all. Indeed, presently ten of the elders came into camp to assure us of their peaceable intentions, and in the course of the afternoon the chiefs of the next district, in which we should have to halt, arrived to oner us their friendship and protection, so that, as the darkness gathered about us, Kijanja's familiar £ Orioi muma ' rang out again and again through the stillness of the evening. In the last day's march we had noted a marked change in the character of the country, and this change was intensified
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