Identifier: discoveryoflakes02hhne2 (find matches)
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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complished the nextmorning without difficulty, in rather less than an hour, anincredibly short time when it is remembered that we had withus 200 heavily laden porters, fifty-five laden donkeys, twenty-five oxen, and 300 sheep and goats. Under ordinary circum-stances half or a whole day would have been consumed overthe transit, but now that we were on our way home after ourarduous and protracted journey, the people, longing to be backwith their wives and children, worked with quite eager enthu-siasm. With a Hip hip hurrah! the loads were flung from oneshoulder to the other, and in double quick time everything wason the other side of the river. Our further march was across a dusty plain opposite LakeNaivasha, dotted with a few isolated stunted trees, their cone-shaped crowns of leaves reminding us of the morio. We campednear two deserted Masai kraals swarming with fleas. Lake Naivasha, which, in Masai dialect, means simply thelake, is more than 6,000 feet above the sea-level, and is the
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.9 6 DEC 21 TRUE POSITION OF LAKE NAIVASHA 295 loftiest of the series of slieets of water running in a southerlydirection across the districts explored by us. It has no outlet,and the water is sweet and pleasant to the taste. On the east itsshores are flat and sandy, on the north-east and north, whereit receives the Murenta and Gilgil, they are overgrown withrushes, and on the south and west they are proportionatelyhigh and rocky. The districts on the west are called Ndabibiby the Masai, after a kind of clover which grows in them. Fromthe south-eastern portion of the lake rise one large and twosmaller reef-like islands, which give the impression of beingthe remains of a sunk and broken-up crater, of which theeastern portion has disappeared altogether. The northern endof the water appears to be swampy and overgrown with rushes.Lake JSTaivasha is far more picturesquely situated than LakeBaringo, flanked as it is on the north by the Doenye Burn, andon the south by Mount Lonongot or Lomba

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