Hollis in his account of the Maasai recorded similar narratives occurring about the same time. He notes that about 1850 the Turkana drove the most westerly branch of the Masai from the west, to the south of (Lake Turkana). He states that somewhere about the same period - at the time an old man can remember according to the native expression - the Masai dwelling on the Uasin Gishu plateau attacked those of Naivasha. The Maasai of Naivasha would later ally with those of Kilimanjaro.