-^ By the Njiri Lakes 



seen, and the wild animals came down to quench their thirst 

 in no way disturbed by my presence. For days together 

 1 occupied myselt exclusively with phcjto^raphy, (getting 

 any numljer of pictures and so managing that hundreds 

 and hundreds of gnus and zebras hung round my camp 

 almost like tame deer. Here thev grazed along with tlocks 

 of the beautiful crested cranes and Egyptian geese : 



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hundreds ot Thomson's gazelle grazed like sheep among 

 them, and wherever the eve turned it saw the rough, dark, 

 strongly marked forms of the old gnu-lnills as they grazed 

 apart, cut oft from the herds. 



For mil(\s there are no shallows in these lakes. 



Where currents issuing from the velt flow to the regular 



marshes, the water reached up to our waists. Thickets of 



reeds border the banks far and wide, and the water is lull 



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