We call the mountain Mount Elsie. It is north of Vetura, and west and
south of Keninumu. We have seen four new villages close to one another
where a teacher could work well. We have now five positions for
teachers, and I hope before we have finished with this inland trip to
have thirty, giving four and five villages to each teacher. In crossing
one of the spurs, a native and his son brought us bananas, and water in a
bamboo. It is difficult to drink out of a bamboo. Place the open end to
the mouth, raise gradually, look out, here it comes--steady. Ah, too
much raised; it is a deluge streaming over you and nearly choking you.
Try again--well, a little better, yet far from perfect. Choking, are
you? Never mind, practise, and you will soon be an expert--a native in
drinking, truly. The natives have been having a feast. They began with
boiled bananas and finished with a large snake cooked in pots. It was
cut up and divided out amongst all--sixteen eggs were found in her, a
little larger than a good-sized fowl's egg.
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