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Page 120
... Lengai loomed through the clouds and again vanished . Heat and silence became one . Adding their silence to the silence , the griffons waited . The Land Rover retreated westward , toward the east face of the Gols . A band of green lined ...
... Lengai loomed through the clouds and again vanished . Heat and silence became one . Adding their silence to the silence , the griffons waited . The Land Rover retreated westward , toward the east face of the Gols . A band of green lined ...
Page 190
... Lengai , which stands by itself between the Crater Highlands and Lake Natron . One travels there by way of Mto Wa Mbu ( Mos- quito River ) , a raffish settlement on the dusty road to Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro . From Mto Wa Mbu a dirt ...
... Lengai , which stands by itself between the Crater Highlands and Lake Natron . One travels there by way of Mto Wa Mbu ( Mos- quito River ) , a raffish settlement on the dusty road to Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro . From Mto Wa Mbu a dirt ...
Page 206
... Lengai . Accompanied by the morani , I followed a cattle trail between the marsh and a thorny rock strangely swollen by thick pink blossoms of the desert rose . Near the mouth of the Uaso Ngiro , green reeds give way to open flats where ...
... Lengai . Accompanied by the morani , I followed a cattle trail between the marsh and a thorny rock strangely swollen by thick pink blossoms of the desert rose . Near the mouth of the Uaso Ngiro , green reeds give way to open flats where ...
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acacia animals arrow Arusha Bantu baobab Barabaig birds buffalo bush camp cattle century climb clouds Crater Highlands crossed dark dead desert dogs Dorobo ears earth East Africa elephant Enderlein Engaruka escarpment eyes feet fire forest gazelle George Schaller Gidabembe Giga grass Hadza Hamitic head herd herdsmen hide hills hunters hunting huts hyena Iain Isanzu Kamba Kenya Kikuyu killed Kopjes Lake Natron Land Rover Lengai leopard light lion Llo-molo Maasai Maasai Land Magadi Magandula Mangati Manyara Mbulu Meru miles mountain Myles Nairobi Nangai Natron Ngorongoro night Nile numbers Ol Doinyo Lengai park plain rain region rhino Rift river road rock safari Samburu Schaller Serengeti Seronera shadow Sipunga Sonjo spears stone stood Sudan Tanzania thorn tion track trees tribes truck Tsavo tsetse Turkana turned valley volcano vultures wild wildebeest wind wood Yaida Chini zebra