With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



at the time of the Masika the coLintry round about would 

 be covered with water for miles. 



It is not difficult to travel in the Masai-Nyika tluring 

 the rainy season when water is abundant, apart from the 

 simple difficulty of finding one's way between the thorns 

 and the bushes and extricating oneself from the long 

 rank grass, often as high as a man. It is very different 



A WHITE-ANT HILL ON THE \1CLT NEAR THE COAST 



durinof the drouyfht. Unless one has reh'aljle knowK^dge 

 beforehand, one is never sure where the next drinkiiig- 

 place will be found. i^\en if infoi-mation is ol)taine(l 

 with regard to some sj)Ot where water was found only 

 a short time lu-fore, it is not to be relied on, tor in the 

 fiery breatli of lh(^ sun and the wind ot" tin; plains ii will 

 evaporate in a few da\s ! \\\t have ottc-n been obliged 

 to travel back more thcUi twenty miles to find water, and 



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