. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . nedround and was about to charge. Eather by instinct than ofset purpose I aimed at the little depression near the ear, andfired. Before I could see for the smoke from my gun, a dullthud told me that I had just escaped being crushed to deathlike a worm. I now hurried in the direction from which I heard firing;but before I came up with the Count the hunt was over. Hehad caught up the fugitive animals in about a quarter of anhour, and had hit first one of the females and then a secondbull, the latter alone
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . nedround and was about to charge. Eather by instinct than ofset purpose I aimed at the little depression near the ear, andfired. Before I could see for the smoke from my gun, a dullthud told me that I had just escaped being crushed to deathlike a worm. I now hurried in the direction from which I heard firing;but before I came up with the Count the hunt was over. Hehad caught up the fugitive animals in about a quarter of anhour, and had hit first one of the females and then a secondbull, the latter alone falling, whilst the former got off with therest of the herd. Shortly before sunset we saw another herdof elephants by the brook a little above the camp. The next day we came to a long, narrow valley running ina southerly direction, shut in between the base of Mount JNyiroand the steep slope of the volcanic plateau. We camped by a e 2 84 THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE RUDOLF spring, and noted, tliougli the soil of the valley was now per-fectly dry, the channels of many copious streams, which had. DONYIRO. evidently flowed through it in the rainy season. Two nativeswho visited us in the afternoon persuaded us to stop here TWO PRETTY GIRLS JOIN US 85 another day, as they told us that the people on this side of themountain had thirty oxen and forty goats which they wishedto sell. We felt sure these numbers were exaggerated; butthought that we should at least get some animals, and that evena few would be most welcome. But the oxen and goats resolved themselves into, first, a bigtusk which Jumbe Kimemeta got very cheap ; and secondly,two sweet, young mountain maidens who wished to join ourcaravan, and put themselves under the wing of our native guide,who pledged himself to provide for them out of his own younger and prettier of these girls was called Donyiro. The next two days were devoted to elephant hunting, butonly two animals were killed, and those two by the Count. Wegreatly
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