KENYA (II) 301 
House burglary is another thing that the civilized African takes 
to like a duck to water, though his unenlightened brother in the 
bush is singularly lacking in such practices. During all the years 
spent among uncivilized natives I had never had anything stolen 
in spite of the fact that I never took special precautions. 
Much had to be organized on this trip if I was to accomplish 
all I had set out to do in the course of a few months. Motor trans- 
port was essential to cover the territory necessary to obtain the 
large variety of animals I had in mind, and as nothing in the 
way of a vehicle was on sale through normal channels so soon 
after the war, I approached the military authorities whom I had 
met in the Madagascar campaign. They were most helpful and 
allowed me to purchase a one-ton lorry from the army dump just 
outside Nairobi. 
I started off for the high country in the vicinity of Lake 
Victoria, passing through Naivasha on the way, and made Sotik 
my objective, where a settler friend had offered to put me up. 
On his farm were the Black Galagos mentioned in a previous 
chapter, and he managed to collect three on my behalf. The 
neighboring bush was also a haunt of the Uganda Crested Guinea- 
fowl—a beautiful species distinguished from the one from Mount 
Kenya by its ring of plain black feathers round the base of the 
neck, the latter having this area spotted with bluish-white spots 
as on the rest of the body. My friend was able to provide me with 
a few of these and so I was fortunate in being able to take home 
both species of this delightful bird. 
They need plenty of space if they are to be induced to breed in 
captivity. The Uganda species was kept in an aviary at Whipsnade 
for some time with no signs of mating, but during a subsequent 
season they were given complete freedom and went to nest almost 
immediately. 
On my way back from Sotik I made for Kaptagat near Eldoret 
at an altitude of over eight thousand feet. At such heights in 
Kenya the Pyrethrum Daisy, the roots of which furnish the 
pyrethrum of commerce, flourishes, and is a crop favored by 
many highland settlers. Here Mrs. Zoe Foster was running a 
school in ideal surroundings for children; a great lover of animals, 
she had a baby chimp that seemed to be part of the class. When I 
