Archive image from page 401 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 378 OUR STAY AT NDORO ascending slopes, through scattered bush haunted by kobus and other antelopes, wild boars, &c, we passed Count Teleki's first camping-place at noon, and pressing on, halted at a little clearing on the edge of a ravine overgrown with vege- tation, where Count Teleki had advised us to camp, as he had heard lions roaring hard by.
Archive image from page 401 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 378 OUR STAY AT NDORO ascending slopes, through scattered bush haunted by kobus and other antelopes, wild boars, &c, we passed Count Teleki's first camping-place at noon, and pressing on, halted at a little clearing on the edge of a ravine overgrown with vege- tation, where Count Teleki had advised us to camp, as he had heard lions roaring hard by. But the march had pretty well exhausted my newly recovered strength, and I was completely done for when we reached the spot. I had, however, shot a kobus antelope on the wa}T, so that the men were in capital spirits, eager to get a hedge up round the camp, so as to begin their cooking. These halts in the wilderness with a small party are really among the pleasantest of our reminis- cences of the journey. Lower and lower crept the fog from the mountain top, and soon the rain came down in one con- tinuous torrent. But this did not damp our ardour at all, only higher and horns of kobus antelope. higher rose the flames from the fires, and closer and closer gathered the groups about them, whilst the wa- sumgumsu or talk became more intimate and pathetic. But now the shades of night are falling, and the time approaches when we may expect to hear the voice of the lion or of the leopard. The voices sink to whispers, and then gradually cease. But there seems after all to be no danger, for not a sound breaks the silence of the wood, and the chattering begins again more eagerly than ever, the men talking about their wives and children, Zanzibar, and so on, till suddenly a
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