Here we found another letter in which Mr.Akeley was asked to come to the Roosevelt camp, and which suggested that a native runner could pilot him to its whereabouts.

The letter had been written some days before and had been for some time at Sergoi.

Whether the Roosevelt camp had been moved in the meantime could not be determined at Sergoi, and we knew only in a general way that it was probably somewhere on the Nzoia River (pronounced Enzoya), two or three days' march west of Sergoi, toward Mount Elgon.
So we started across, meeting no natives who possibly could have given any information.

On the afternoon of November thirteenth we went into camp on the edge of a great swamp, or _tinga-tinga_, as the natives call it, only a couple of hours' march from the river.

Many fresh elephant trails had been discovered, and the swamp itself looked like a most promising place for lions.