Family and home of the Wandorobo guide of the Mau Plateau 
the Theba to its junction with the Tana 
occupied three days during which time 
On the 
second march up the Tana, as I was 
we saw no fresh sign of buffalo. 
traveling ahead of the safari at about 
midday, looking out through an opening 
in a strip of thorn bush that bordered 
the river, I saw in the distance a great 
black mass on the open plain which on 
further the field 
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investigation with 
glasses I was reasonably certain was a 
herd of buffalo. Sending a note back 
to Cunningham, who was in charge of 
the safari, suggesting that he make 
‘amp at a hill on the banks of the Tana 
some two miles ahead of my position and 
await me there, I started off over the 
plain with my two gun-boys. Coming 
up out of a dry stream-bed that I had 
used to conceal my approach to the herd 
