The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

ture q lot Of cattle and camels, so he 10 always
sending out his mon and fighting tho surround-
ing tribes, and 10 thus naturally very much dis
liked"
Tho Turkana men are absolutely without
clothing. and wear q long mat OF hair. which is
woven together and added to for generations,
reaching very often down to their thighs. In
side this headgear thoy have q kind Of bag In
which they put anything they want to carry.
Higher up they wear ostrich feathers dyed
in blood, one for every man that they
kill in warfare. Their faces are Of q
long, fiat shape. and TO make them still
moro hideous they cover them with rcd and
white lines. Their powers Of endurance are
simply marvellous, and Mr.. Cavendish has
measured several Of their strides made whom
running. which have been "a inches from heel
to toe. He thinks they are tho fastest runners
OF all the tribes In East Africa, being even faster
than the Nasal. When on the warpath every
warrior Is accompanied by one or more dogs,
which he uses to track his enemy, as they always
fight during the night time. They also wear q
wrist knife like the Reshiat people. Their war
cry is the same as that of the Suk. an initiation
OF tho bark Of the zebra, which Is so good that IL
is very hard to distinguish from the cry OF the
true animal.
Tho Turkana attempted to enter Mr.. Caven.
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Lubur, and. after following the party for q num-
ber of days and nights. they several times at
tackled their camp on the night of April 20. o
few Of them actually succeeding in getting in
side. Further fighting subsequently took place,
but eventually Mr.. Cavendish's men captured q
woman. whom they sent with friendly messages
TO the natives. whereupon the latter not only
agreed to let them pass through their country,
but provided them with guides. On arriving at
the south end of the lake tho explorer was sur
prised to find that Teleki's active volcano had
disappeared. Its place having been taken by an
absolutely fat plain of lava, but q new crater
had opened about three miles due south.
Having rejoined Lieut.. Andrew, Mr.. Caven.
dish discovered an entirely new sheet of water
about thirty miles duo south Of Lake Rudolph.
The water In this lake, which by the natives Is
called Sugota, was exceedingly hot, and near
the north end was q smoulderipg volcano, which
Mr.. Cavendish named after his companion, An.
drew Volcano. In places where the water had
dried up the lakebed was composed Of black
mud. very deep and hot. but with a hard crust
over tho surface. Former high.water marks
were strewn with a mass OF f1shbones and skele-
tons Of fish. large and small, evidently killed
when the water was heated. The dried.up por-
tions Of the lake were crusted with salt, and on
the borders there were solid mounds Of salt.
There were one or two wells of fresh water
here. and many sites Of old villages which had
been deserted on account Of the 'fre noun.
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From Lake SuRota a bee line was followed for
Lake Baringo. and It waB on the road thither
that the most serious difficulties of the trip
were experienced. I'VE had" said Mr.. Cav.
endish, "a mutinous camp and two captured
guides. of whom We were never quite sure, and
exceedingly little water. The route was also
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loads from camels to donkeys we were finally
compelled to carry them up ourselves. II 1t
had not been for fortunate ruin show crs and a
lucky find of q few puddlee. wo should never
have got through this country" They did.
however, got through II, and eventually reached
the head Of the Uganda Railway. where all diff
hculties wero at an end, the whole caravan be-
ing sent down to Mombasa by special train.
Very gradually. here a little and there q little.
modern research Is accommodating q great mass
Of varied material which. In course Of time. will
doubtless enable us to form a fairly accurate
idea OF Egyptian life in those dim days Of 1000
and 5000 years before Christ. The latest dis
coveries give glimpses of those intimate details
of daily life which form perhaps the most fasci.
mating feature Of history. 1t Is knowledge such
as this which makes books like Pepys' Diary
and Boswells johnson so highly priced to-day.
and which will make them even more highly
valued in the centuries to come. What would
we not give for tho discovery of an Egyptian
Boswell or Pepys Of 8 1000 B. CT
As 1t Is we must wait for the patient decipher-
ing of the papyri from time to time brought to
light by such diligent searchers as Prof. Flinders
Petrie. The latest batch Of these human docu-
ments is q large collection discovered by Petrie
in 1sss.s9. From Kahup. the site of a ruined
town Of tho twelfth dynasty. rich in domestic re-
mains. the excavator obtained these fragmentarY
archives representing almost every class of
record usually committed to writing-literature,
deeds, inventories, prescriptions, letters, private
and official. ready .reckoners, accounts, &c. They
were intrusted to Mr.. +. H. Grifith to sort and
edit, and he has now made known what they
contained on the two points OF household census
lists, and title deeds to or the disposition of
property, in the present instances apparently q
kind of will.
Unpromising as this sounds there is much Of