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Page 78
... track was very slow , and it was near daylight when we passed the track down to Allia Bay , barely discernible in the cinder waste . From a visit by air last year to Allia Bay , Anderson knew of a rock pool inland , at the head of a ...
... track was very slow , and it was near daylight when we passed the track down to Allia Bay , barely discernible in the cinder waste . From a visit by air last year to Allia Bay , Anderson knew of a rock pool inland , at the head of a ...
Page 190
... track turns off along that part of the Rift wall formed by the Crater Highlands , arriving eventually at the village of Engaruka , thirty - five miles north ; from there , it was said , a Maasai cattle path wound around the ramparts of ...
... track turns off along that part of the Rift wall formed by the Crater Highlands , arriving eventually at the village of Engaruka , thirty - five miles north ; from there , it was said , a Maasai cattle path wound around the ramparts of ...
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... track were left be- hind . The cars wound down along the river , then headed off into dense thicket . The cattle track di- minished in the sun and dust , and for miles the cars forced a way through tough acacia scrub with a fierce ...
... track were left be- hind . The cars wound down along the river , then headed off into dense thicket . The cattle track di- minished in the sun and dust , and for miles the cars forced a way through tough acacia scrub with a fierce ...
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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