. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . usiastic young Americannaturalist, who had come out to study the flora and faunaof Kilamanjaro. He had already been here two years, and thepublication of the results of his work may well be eagerlyawaited by the scientific world, for they are pretty sure tobe exhaustive of the subjects to which he has devoted hisattention. 318 RETURN FROM LAKE BARINGO TO THE COAST On October 13 we left Taveta. Of the rest of our returnjourney to the coast there is httle to relate, for it was by well-known paths, past Te
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . usiastic young Americannaturalist, who had come out to study the flora and faunaof Kilamanjaro. He had already been here two years, and thepublication of the results of his work may well be eagerlyawaited by the scientific world, for they are pretty sure tobe exhaustive of the subjects to which he has devoted hisattention. 318 RETURN FROM LAKE BARINGO TO THE COAST On October 13 we left Taveta. Of the rest of our returnjourney to the coast there is httle to relate, for it was by well-known paths, past Teita and Kadiaro, to Eabai near Mombasa,the oldest mission station in East Africa, which we reached onthe morning of October 24, 1888. It was with almost painful emotion that we once more sawthe blue surface of the ocean stretching away before us, for itmeant separation from the wilderness which all who really knowit love so well. A circle of friends, General Matthews, Mackenzie, and Mr. Buchanan, whom we unexpectedlymet in Mombasa, helped us over the parting moment, and forty-. HARAR. eight hours later the whole caravan was taken across to Zanzibaron one of the steamships of the British India Steam NavigationCompany. We spent two months in the island free from all the arduouseffort of travelling life, and enjoying all the comforts of civilisa-tion. This was, in fact, the most dangerous time of our wholeenterprise, for we were soon overtaken by fever, that plaguewhich we had so far escaped so well, and which now consumedthe very marrow of our bones, paled our bronzed and healthycomplexions, and reduced us in a marvellously short time tomere skeletons. WE DECIDE TO GO TO IIARAR 319 Scarcely recovered, we reached Aden in the first week ofthe following year. Even now our zeal for travelling was notquenched, and we resolved before going home, though wewere still anything but well, to take a trip to the celebratedold Ethiopian town of Harar, on the frontier of Shoa. Of this
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