The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [‎340r] (32/232)

AN EXPEDITION BETWEEN LAKE RUDOLF AND THE NILE. 605
and many natives helped us down the paths. The piost important
settlement, about an hour’s march from the foot of the mountain, called
Saki, was in a most flourishing condition, judging from the large
numbers of cattle which the people owned. A couple of marches west
of Saki we got into a very bad washed-out stony country, where the
plain was cut into hideous designs by the rushing of the waters in
times of flood. A guide whom we had got at Saki insisted on going
to the north, which I would not do, so I felt that I had only myself to
blame for getting into the bad land. It took five long marches to get
across the plain, on account of several stretches of this character.
A specimen of one of the tiny gazelle, or dig-dig, of this plain, which I
BAD LANDS, NEAR SAKI, EAST OF LAKE STEFANIE.
presented to the British Museum, has been proven to be new to science
by Mr. Oldfield Thomas (JMadoqua guntheri smithii'). On November 19
we were among the mountains again, and not far from the south-east
end of Lake Stefanie.
There was one rather isolated mountain called Janissa, 5600 feet
high, which I decided to ascend while my camels were resting. From
the top of it I got a splendid view, and picked up most important
points of my previous journey—Mount Kanjaro, the Tertala range,
Lakes Stefanio and Rudolf, and Mount Koroli—and could thus check
my work, which I was most pleased to find correct. The trip was not
without other advantages aho, for on the very top of the mountain