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Title: Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Höhnel, Ludwig, Ritter von
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Publisher: London : Longmans, Green & Co
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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apathetic despair, Qualla did not lose his head. Hewas told that all dealings with the Wakikuyu were carried onthrough the Wandorobbo ; but he took no notice of that,merely, in spite of every warning, pushing on over the frontierin order to deal with the natives direct. He could get nothingfrom them, however, as they were in want themselves; and hehardly knew how to support his men. The cold, too, wasintense, Miansini being some 8,200 feet above the sea-level.He wandered about for five days, and then went to the districtwhere lived our old friends Terrere, Kassa, and Utahaj Uajaki.He was everywhere kindly received; tribute was not oncedemanded, nor was there any shouting or gathering togetherof the people. He was led from village to village by natives,who bought for him what little food could be spared. Hecame thus to the site of our seventh camp, keeping his menon half rations of green bananas, half-ripe sweet potatoes,yams, &c., so as to keep back the little meal, millet, maize^
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6 DEC 21 FAMINE NEAR LAKE NAIVASHA 43 and the few beans he was able to obtain. With infinite troublehe managed to scrape together as much as 128 loads, when,feeling it was useless to try and get more, he decided to turnback. On his way to Lake Naivasha, he jDassed the now de-serted camps of the traders, in one of which were two porters atdeaths door from want of food. One he helped and took on withhim, the other was too weak to be moved, and was reluctantlyleft to die. On the site of the other camp were the half-burnedcorpses of two more men who had probably been left behindin a dying condition, and had perished when the Masai set fireto the camp after the traders had left. If such was the caseat the beginning of the return march to the coast, we canimagine how many corpses would later mark the course ofthese luckless caravans. In spite of this terrible warning,however, nine of Quallas men went off here, each with a loadof from 78 to 88 lb. of grain. One of the runaways died soon afte

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