Archive image from page 333 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 discoveryoflakes02hhne Year: 1894 318 RETURN FROM LAKE BARINGO TO THE COAST On October 13 we left Taveta. Of the rest of our return journey to the coast there is little 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 on the morning of October 24, 1888. It was with almost painful em
Archive image from page 333 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 discoveryoflakes02hhne Year: 1894 318 RETURN FROM LAKE BARINGO TO THE COAST On October 13 we left Taveta. Of the rest of our return journey to the coast there is little 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 on the morning of October 24, 1888. It was with almost painful emotion that we once more saw the blue surface of the ocean stretching away before us, for it meant separation from the wilderness which all who really know it love so well. A circle of friends, General Matthews, Mr. George Mackenzie, and Mr. Buchanan, whom we unexpectedly met in Mombasa, helped us over the parting moment, and forty- HARAR. eight hours later the whole caravan was taken across to Zanzibar on one of the steamships of the British India Steam Navigation Company. We spent two months in the island free from all the arduous effort of travelling life, and enjoying all the comforts of civilisa- tion. This was, in fact, the most dangerous time of our whole enterprise, for we were soon overtaken by fever, that plague which we had so far escaped so well, and which now consumed the very marrow of our bones, paled our bronzed and healthy complexions, and reduced us in a marvellously short time to mere skeletons.
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