This scan from Dale. Photo is probably from MK. Origins of the photo unkown.
Book ID 414
This scan from Dale. Photo is probably from MK. Origins of the photo unkown.
[Lelamari, Lotal] director-general of Tanzania's National Parks (Tanapa)
Exhibition centre was updated by the Getty Foundation.
closed with torrential rains in December.
1. named the Winter Highlands by the Germans (but see Ngorongoro)
2. Maasai - O'lhoirobi - Cold Highlands
Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
First recorded ascent of Mount Meru by Prof. F Jaeger
its Maasai name means 'Cooking Pot'.
Kilima Njaro (Swahili) Mountain of Greatness, or
Mountain of Caravans,
both translations believed by Rebmann, first European to see the mountain in 1848.
Kilimangare (Maasai) meaning 'hill of water'
Also translated as Shining Mountain, White Mountain, or Mountain of Water
'small heads' in Afrikaans
[Kruuk, Dr. Hans] .. of the Serengeti Research Institute
Maasai - ilemelepo- dry hills
Maasai - oloonkito - place of the stone useful for sharpening knives
Maasai - the black mountain
Major Wildlife Census
Maasai ‘Amanya-are’ ‘A meeting place of two’
Maasai, Meaning 'that which does not make a noise'
named after the Maasai word given to their ceremonial anklets made from the skin of the colobus monkey
Named after a type of Maasai bowl, which it resembles.
Name of an especially valiant group of Datogo warriors defeated by Maasai after battle in the Crater about 150 years ago
Maasai age set, called the Ilkorongoro, who wrested the highland from their previous occupants, the Datong.
Name of Maasai cattle bell maker who lived in the crater
Name of a grinding stone, which the caldera resembles
Sound of the battle bells that the Maasai wore during the battle [with the Datong], that was supposed to have terrified their enemies into submission was 'koh- rohngroh' and it is from this that Ngorongoro comes
'extra down' in Maasai (A Smith)
Of Kalenjin origin. Name of an age set known variously as Gorongoro, Kerongoro, or Korongoro which was defeated by the Masai about 150-200 years ago. The Kalenjin ethnic group includes the Tatog (Barabaig or Mangati) of Tanzania.
no mentions of eruptions between 1940 and 1966
Maasai for Giant Bamboo 'Arundinaria alpina' - Ol doinyo l'ol tiani
Named after the sansevieria plant (tall, wild sisal, aka bayonet aloe) called Oldupai or ol duvai in Maasai.
River of Mosquitoes
Serengeti . . . derives from Maasai siringet, Meaning 'extended place'
The camp, set up in 1971 in the wildlife-rich lands around Tanzania's Lake Ndutu, was a particularly important training ground for young filmmakers.
The first Europeans to discover Kilimanjaro the legendary burial place of King Solomon, were two German missionaries, Johannes Rebmann and Ludwig Krapf, in 1848. Their tales of a snow-covered peak near the equator, however, were not initially believed.
The Hard Country
