UP AND DOWN THE MOUNTAIN SIDE FROM THE KETOSH VILLAGE TO THE GREAT CAVE OF BATS.

A DRAMATIC EPISODE WITH THE FINDING OF A BLACK BABY AS A CLIMAX For days we had heard of wonderful places higher up in the mountain.

The information had been so vague and uncertain we hardly knew whether to credit the reports or simply put them down as native folk lore or superstition.

One night we interviewed Askar, one of the Somali gunbearers.
He said he had been up the mountain a year or two before with a Frenchman who wanted to see the mysterious natural wonders of Mount Elgon.

The Frenchman had to threaten to kill his native guides before they would consent to lead him up in the cold heights of the mountain to show him the places that filled the native imagination with such fear and superstitious dread.
There was one place, Askar said, where the water boiled out of the ground far, far up in the mountain heights, and any native who looked at it fell dead.