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Title: A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott), 1862-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London A.D. Innes & Co.
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Field Museum's Africa Council

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nd other races areencroaching upon them, and I do not think theywill ever again be the dangerous people whichthey were a few years ago. The Germans about Kilimandjaro seem to haveshot any Masai that they saw at sight, and it isthose that have fled from German territory thatare the worst. Yet they might become of greatassistance to Europeans in the management ofcattle and in waggon transport, and probablywould make excellent soldiers. It is obvious thatthese ernormous camps, and therefore the Elmoranwhich live upon them, could be very easily keptin order, but the best policy would be to try andinduce them to settle in small parties at different After leaving these Masai we saw no humanbeings, save three Wandarobbo and Major Smithscaravan, till we reached Kavirondo. KIKUYU TO THE VICTORIA. 27 Ifc gives one a curious impression to inarch dayafter day over lovely grass plains covered withzebra, hartebeest, and other antelopes, past beauti-ful lakes where geese, ducks, and other water-fowl
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Fief. C.—Taru Waterhole. almost cover the water, then perhaps through adense virgin forest with magnificent timber, andall the time to see no human beings whatever.Yet the country is healthy and in every way suitedfor Europeans, while we have hundreds of people 28 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. in England who do not know where to turn foremployment. I had bought twenty-two donkeys aud fourcattle at Kikuyu, and we were going on beautifully,with every one in the best of spirits, when I hada serious misfortune. Leaving Nakuru in themorning, I reached the Guaso Masai, a twenty-mile march, in good time. Having found that thenatural pace of the porters was much faster thanthat of the donkeys, I had left six of my best menand two askaris in charge of the latter underBakari ben Ali, the Government headman. AfterI got into camp Bakari sent to tell me that thedonkeys had stampeded in the bush, and thathe wanted me to send men to find them. I didnot think it was a matter of much importance,but wh

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