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Title: An ivory trader in North Kenia; the record of an expedition through Kikuyu to Galla-Land in east equatorial Africa. With an account of the Rendili and Burkeneji tribes
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hardwick, Alfred Arkell-, 1878-
Subjects: Ethnology Samburu (African people) Rendille (African people)
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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I risked a shot at thatdistance with the Martini, and as luck would have it, Idropped one beast with a bullet clean through the heart. Onshort rations we found that it required one zebra per diemto feed the men. The next day we reached a large ravine, at the bottomof which flowed a large river, called the Ngare Moosoor (EggEiver), which took us an hour and a half to cross. No gamewas to be seen, but luckily the men had enough food to lastthem for another day or two, as they still had some of thegrain left which they had brought from Munithu. It rained hard during the night, but cleared up againat sunrise, and we resumed our march over the grass-covereddowns. At midday we reached yet another ravine, thelargest we had seen so far. Its sides were clothed with thesame forest, but the undergrowth was thicker than usual.Not finding a place to cross the ravine, we threaded our waythrough the jungle in a direction parallel to it. It wasextremely hard work, we having to cut our way with knives
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MOUNT KENIA FROM THE NORTH. (Distant about 12 miles.)

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