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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, familiarly known aswood-beetles. A little before sunset on the second day, our envoysreturned, having searched for natives first for some distancealong the lake, and then at the base of the mountains. Theyhad only found one cattle kraal, which had evidently beendeserted for at least three years. They had, however, seenplenty of game, including numerous elephants, one a giant withtusks longer than any we had yet seen, compared to which,according to Qualla, all our other elephants had been merechildrens toys. We still hoped that Baringo might be moresuccessful, and therefore waited here another day, but he didnot come, and we thought it very likely he had found nativesand remained with them, although from his having borroweda second spear from Lembasso, so as, to quote his own words,to have two in case of need, we gathered that he did not expectto be kindly received. On the morning of April 26 we left the lake and pushed onalong a path running parallel with it in a westerly direction,
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A FORCED MARCH 193 meaning thus to return to our old route by a short cut.On this march the Count came upon a group of crocodiles,which rushed headlong for the water at his approach, not,however, before one of them had been shot dead. He alsosurprised a lion and a leopard, but they both got off beforehe could fire. We halted for the night in the ravine-likemountain channel of a brook, and found to our surprise thatthe subsoil consisted of metamorphic rock, so that only theupper stratum was of volcanic origin. Layers of gneiss, run-ning from north to south, with an easterly inclination of fromabout seventy to eighty degrees, were of frequent occurrencein this ravine. The formation of the lake appears to havebeen the result of subsidence. As we marched further, we made the disagreeable discoverythat it had not rained in the mountains during the last fewdays, and we must expect to suffer from want of water, which,in fact, we very soon did. We obtained a little water by digging the next d

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