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the scenes by the snout of the Lewis Glacier (Nos. VIII. XIII. 

 XV. and XVI.) He has also redrawn, and thus rendered avail- 

 able for process reproduction, the view of Kenya from the Kapte 

 Plains, sketched by Mr. Ainsworth. For permission to use 

 the photograph of the southern end of the Victoria Nyanza, I 

 have to thank Mr. Gedge. For the Frontispiece, and Plates 

 Nos. I. IX. X. XI. XIV. and XVII., I am indebted to my 

 wife, who has taken great pains accurately to interpret my 

 rough sketches ; I also owe her much assistance in the 

 revision of proofs and compilation of indexes. For per- 

 mission to reprint Map No. II. and Figs. 3, 6, 11, and 13 

 from the Geographical Journal, and Fig. 4 from the Quarterly 

 Journal oj the Geological Society, I have to thank the Councils 

 of the Geographical and Geological Societies, The conditions 

 under which the book has been written are partly responsible 

 for the defects in its style ; that these are not more serious 

 than they are I owe to Dr. W. R. Gowers, F.R.S., who has 

 kindly read through nearly the whole of the manuscript, and 

 given me the benefit of many most useful criticisms and 

 suggestions. I must also thank Mr. Murray for his kind 

 interest and advice. 



The pleasure of looking back to these many acts of kind- 

 ness is, however, lessened by the fact that the mortality in 

 British East Africa has sadly shortened the list of those to 

 whom I can express thanks. Bird Thompson and Rae of 

 Witu, J. Bell Smith of Melindi, Edmonds of Borabini, the two 

 brothers Dick of Mombasa, Charters of Kibwezi, and Purkiss of 

 Fort Smith — a terribly high proportion of the few men who held 

 British East Africa in 1892-93 — have all since passed away. 

 In such countries, as Carlyle said, "how much European 

 heroism has to spend itself in obscure battle, to sink in mortal 

 agony, before the jungles, the putrescences, and waste savageries 



