However, "when the southern Masai heard that they were coming, they combined together and came forth to meet them. They met the Loikop north of Nakuru...". Stigand gave a detailed account of the battle, one that has been retold since within a number Kenyan of communities. Thompson later recounts a trek past 'Giligili' where he noticed "an ernomous Masai kraal, which could not have held less than 3000 warriors, and then some distance beyond appeared another of equal, if not larger dimensions." On inquiry, Thompson learned that these were the respective camps of the Masai of Kinangop and Kapte, on the one hand, and the Masai (Wa-kwafi) of Lykipia on the other. He was told that this was; "During one of their long periods of deadly fighting, in which they thus settled down before all their cattle, and fought day after day, till one gave in". The Meru 'Lumbwa dispersal' and 'Kagairo' narratives both indicate that a community referred to as Lumbwa moved in a southward direction. These narratives seem congruent with certain Kalenjin origin traditions recorded by Chesaina that place the 'Lumbwa' in a general south-west direction of northern Mount Kenya regions as well as the accounts regarding the Iloikop wars. Chesaina notes that the Kalenjin traditions state that,  By the late 19th century, the term Lumbwa primarily referred to the Kipsigis community. Kipsigis traditions recorded by Orchadson (1927) state that the Kipsigis and Nandi had been a united identity through to the early nineteenth century. About this time they moved southwards through country occupied by Masai, "probably the present Uasin Gishu country" where they accidentally got split in two by a wedge of Masai who Orchadson records as being "Uasin Gishu (Masai) living in Kipchoriat (Nyando) valley". Accounts from Hollis however refer to a "branch called 'L-osigella or Segelli [who] took refuge in the Nyando valley but were wiped out by the Nandi and Lumbwa...It was from them that the Nandi obtained their system of rule by medicine-men. No date is given for this migration. However, Dobbs (1910) made notes on the initiation age-sets of the Lumbwa.