Excerpt from To Abyssinia Through an Unknown Land: An Account of a Journey Through Unexplored Regions of British East Africa by Lake Rudolf to the Kingdom of Menelek With the exception of the two headmen and my boy, they were all highlanders - men absolutely unsuited to the conditions of life in the low country. Dependent in their villages almost entirely on grain, and used to the cool air of the East African Highlands, and no lack of running streams, they suffered terribly from the heat and thirst of the lava desert and the reduced rations of cereal food. After passing through this waterless strip, and reaching the southern borders of Abyssinia, one comes to a country profuse in little tribes, all differing from one another to a greater or lesser degree in customs and language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.