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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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s true, butstronger and better able to endure fatigue, &c. They, too,craved for fat, and thefts of it were almost the only mis-demeanours now requiring punishment, for our men had grownvery trustworthy and conscientious. On the afternoon of December 27 the trading caravan atlast arrived from Nyemps, and camped near us, glad of a chanceof once more eating their fill, the Count having-the day beforeshot a quantity of game, including two buffaloes. The amountof meat negroes can consume is perfectly marvellous, as is alsotheir power to endure hunger. The people of this caravanhad subsisted for more than three months on a handful eachof dhurra or eleusine and were about to undertake the returnjourney to Miansini without any store of provisions with them.The hardships connected with the bringing of ivory down tothe coast are very great, and nothing but an enthusiastic loveof travelling can account for the fact that numbers yearlyleave Dar es Salaam and Mombasa for the interior with just
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6 DEC 2l 1 AM KEPT A PRISONER IN CAMP 27 the same thoughtless want of preparation, when even the ivoryobtained at so much cost is immediately transferred, as beforerelated, to the Hindu merchants of Zanzibar, &c. The leaders of the caravan now begged Count Teleki togive them a stock of meat which they could dry and take withthem for the return journey. Their request was complied with,although it was difficult to see how the already laden porterscould carry provisions also on the ten days march to Miansini.Their plan had been to go on as far as possible with theirloads, then to bury them, and push on empty-handed toKikuyuland, where they hoped to get the necessary supplies.The Count now, however, presented them with all he hadbrought down the day before, namely, two buffaloes, a rhino-ceros, and a kaama antelope. Unfortunately three badlywounded buffaloes and one rhinoceros had escaped. I hadnot been able to take part in the hunt as I still had intermit-tent attacks of dysentery wh

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