BRITISH EAST AFRICA 



finding big game everywhere, including the Grevey's zebra 

 in the country northwest of Kenia and near the lovely river 

 Guaso Narok at its junction with the Guaso Nyiro, to the 

 north of which junction the northern game reserve begins. 

 Turning thence upstream on the right bank of the Guaso 

 Narok, the path takes the safari back again toward civili- 

 zation, returning to the railroad by another also very inter- 

 esting route. 



On this beautiful Laikipia plateau there are scattered 

 a good many Masai villages, or '' manyata," where it is 

 possible to obtain fresh, fine milk for trade goods, such 

 as "Americano" (a kind of unbleached muslin), brass 

 wire, glass beads, or, nowadays, also for money. All along 

 the river to the north, at a distance varying from half a 

 mile to two miles from the river bed, there are large 

 plains, extending from rather abrupt bluffs from the river 

 valley for miles and miles inland, dotted here and there 

 with single good-sized trees, or clumps of the thorny 

 mimosa. 



These highlands seem to be the favorite play and feed- 

 ing grounds of countless rhinos, which, if one is carefully 

 observing the wind, and using some cover, can be ap- 

 proached to within thirty yards and less before they either 

 run away or else, like the Chinese, take exception to 

 being photographed and stared at, and with " puffs " and 

 " snorts," with lowered horns and uplifted tails, charge 

 down on the intruders. On these plains, where often also 

 eland, oryx, and giraffes are seen, I once met not less than 

 eleven rhinos within one hour, mostly in pairs of male and 

 female or female and young. I was fortunate enough to 

 secure some good photographs of them, but although not 



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