BRITISH EAST AFRICA 



the before-named districts either in regard to heahhfulness 

 of chmate or variety and abundance of game. 



British East Africa is supposed to have four different 

 seasons: December, January, and February, the dry, hot 

 season, the East African summer; March, April, and the 

 half of May, the heavy rainy season ; end of May to Septem- 

 ber, the long dry, or " winter " season, and then again Oc- 

 tober and November the " small rains." But the seasons 

 have for the last years been most irregular. The only 

 really unpleasant months to be out on safari in British East 

 Africa are March and April, when there is pouring rain 

 everywhere and almost every day. 



The height of the nowadays quite fashionable shooting 

 season is from October to February, when it is safe to 

 say that dozens of hunting parties are out in the field ; but 

 the pleasantest time for shooting trips is, without ques- 

 tion, from May to October, when comparatively few hunt- 

 ers are in the land, owing to the social summer seasons 

 in Europe and America. During that time it is much 

 cooler, and the sportsman is not so likely to run across 

 another safari when in the field. It is then also much 

 easier to secure good porters, guides, and horses than 

 at the height of the season, when " everybody " comes. 

 I myself have tried both seasons, and should I go back 

 again would certainly choose our summer for the sojourn 

 in British East Africa. 



The game laws of British East Africa have recently 

 been materially changed, and are now not as liberal to the 

 hunter as in the years gone by. For thorough information 

 I have copied below the exact rendering of the new law 

 of December, 1909, as recorded in the OiHcial Gazette. 

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