. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . ili call such animals Bude, and they are evidently veryfierce, as they are always chosen as leaders. It was the Budein this case which warned his fellows to flee, and directed themin their flight. The absence of tusks must be very rare, as thiswas the only example we met with. During this hunt, which took place between one and twooclock in the afternoon, several showers of rain fell, and theweather was unsettled for the rest of the day. As usual,numbers of birds appeared just before sunset, to disappear
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . ili call such animals Bude, and they are evidently veryfierce, as they are always chosen as leaders. It was the Budein this case which warned his fellows to flee, and directed themin their flight. The absence of tusks must be very rare, as thiswas the only example we met with. During this hunt, which took place between one and twooclock in the afternoon, several showers of rain fell, and theweather was unsettled for the rest of the day. As usual,numbers of birds appeared just before sunset, to disappearsoon afterwards in the west. VIGOEOUS REMEDIES FOR COLIC 147 A man died during the march, and we had to doctor anotherfor violent cohc. Tlie general mode amongst the people ofcaravans of treating colic is to lay the sufferer on the groundwith outstretched legs, then to fasten the feet together abovethe ankles with a strip of stulf, pass a stick through the stuffand turn it round and round till the patient gives vent to terriblescreams of agony. When he leaves off crying out the Prophets. TREATMENT FOR COLIC. name, to which he volubly adds some half dozen of his mostfamiliar attributes, he is released from the rack, by which timehe is always quite cured, as we ourselves witnessed in morethan a hundred cases. Friday, March 30.—After a short march along the beach,which was at first sandy, then muddy, we camped, the Counthaving brought down one of the elephants wounded the daybefore. It had led us far away from the beach, which was 148 ALONG LAKE RUDOLF the reason for such an early halt. Through the glass we sawno less than four herds of elephants in the distance, the largestof which contained some twenty-five or thirty animals. The sky was much overcast all day, and we could see rainfalling on the north and north-east. In the morning a strongbreeze blew from land to sea, and in the afternoon from sea toland. One of the men who had gone to the dead elephant tofetch some meat was
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