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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ed verywell in the loose sand, and at a depth of about five feet theirlabours were crowned with success. There was not muchwater oozing through the sand, but what there was was clearand sweet. A few signal shots brought back the other and less fortu-nate search parties, and then every One rushed with shovels to the newly found supply, todig difierent holes and drinktheir fill. Each hole, however,contained so little water that ittook the whole of the next dayto satisfy all the men and cattle. I went off in the morning totry and get a days rations forthe men, with an eye specially torhinoceroses, for just as we werecamping on the evening beforewe had seen one of these animalswith such an abnormally longhorn, that we had stared afterGAZELLE wALLERii,FEOMTHEUNKNOWN Hm as If hc had becu aghost, HORN OF AFRICA, BY F. L. JAMES. ,-ii i T J • .1 J till he disappeared m the dis-tance. My hunting zeal was thoroughly aroused, but for allthat I brought nothing back but a female giraffe-antelope,
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OUR GUIDE DISAPPEARS 69 wliicli had no horns, and but for a light brown stripe on thesides was of the reddish-brown colour of a roe. I saw a pair of giraffes, but neither rhinoceroses nor theirspoors, so I had to conclude that those we had noticed theday before were but casual wanderers. I went back past the water-holes to enjoy watching theanimated scene going on around them. One big pit hadbeen dug for the animals, and about a dozen holes from6 to 8 feet deep for the men. For the cattle the waterwas brought up in our india-rubber baths and big iron wash-ing basins, whilst parties of the men guarded their own parti-cular holes, going down in single file. As there was only avery small pot full of the precious fluid for each at a time,they all got thirsty before their turn came round again, sothere was a good deal of verbal strife, and now and then some-thing more, when an intruder from some other party had to bedriven away, or when the pot had been returned to its ownerwith too little

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