. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . ur afterhour passed on without a signof the relieving force. But atlast towards evening the joyfulsound of signal shots reachedus from the distance, and alittle later we saw cattle, goatSyand sheep filing down themountain slope towards the valley echoed withthe lowing of the cattle andthe joyful shouts and friendlychatter of the men as theyexchanged greetings and had accomplished the raid before daybreak, whenthe cattle were still all together in the kraal. On the suddenonset of our
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . ur afterhour passed on without a signof the relieving force. But atlast towards evening the joyfulsound of signal shots reachedus from the distance, and alittle later we saw cattle, goatSyand sheep filing down themountain slope towards the valley echoed withthe lowing of the cattle andthe joyful shouts and friendlychatter of the men as theyexchanged greetings and had accomplished the raid before daybreak, whenthe cattle were still all together in the kraal. On the suddenonset of our men, who began by driving off the herds mindingthe cattle, the natives, roused from their sleep, fled away interror, so that no fighting took place in the village. The cattlewere then driven ofi*, Qualla following with a few men at a littledistance to protect the rear. Not until two hours afterwardsdid the natives rally and pursue our men with the stolen rushed boldly on, some two hundred in number, till theywere about fifty paces off the rear-guard, but they could not stand. SKETCH OF A PECULIAR TREE MET WITHIN SUK. LEAF NATURAL SIZE. LAI£E BAEINGO IN SIGHT 281 against the shots with whicli they were greeted, and soonturned tail Not one of the numerous arrows fired at our mentold home, but a porter was severely wounded in the heat ofcombat by a shot from one of our own guns. The mengot back to their camp unhindered, and Qualla, expecting thatthe natives would attack him again in greater force, remainedwhere he was till the next day, thinking he could fight betterthere than on the road. But he was left unmolested, the Suknot venturing to appear again. Our present position was very unfavourable for resisting anattack, so we shifted camp the next morning, two and a halfhours further to the south-east. Here we rested for a day,and allowed our men to enjoy the superfluity we had succeededin obtaining. But for many of them relief had come too late,and they gradually san
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