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constantly putting up jobs to get him in bad with the 
master because, to these two peoples, the Wakikuyus 
are a very inferior race. There is no doubt in my 
mind that Bill’s disgrace with the Roosevelt Expedi- 
tion was due entirely to the connivance of the Swahilis 
and the Somalis. 
When we had finished with our lion-spearing ex- 
pedition on the Uasin Gishu Plateau, numerous things 
had been stolen, and the Somalis insisted that Bill 
was the guilty party. A white man whom I had, 
employed to take charge of the Nandi spearmen was 
not fond of Bill, and one day he ordered him to open 
his bag for inspection. Bill refused, and when the 
case was brought to me and I investigated it, Bill was 
so rebellious that we found it necessary to take him 
in hand for mild punishment. He ran from camp and 
I sent an askari after him. The askari overtook him, 
but he did not bring him back, because Bill had a 
long knife and he was prepared to use it to a finish. 
I realized that I would have to see it through, al- 
though my sympathies were all with Bill. We were 
near a government Joma, and I turned my case over 
to the officials. Bill was arrested, put in jail, and we 
went on without him. 
Some weeks later we were making the ascent of 
Mt. Kenia, back in Bill’s old country, where Bill’s 
services had been almost invaluable; and I continually 
felt the need and frequently an actual longing for 
Bill. We were up about ten thousand feet on Kenia, 
following an elephant trail. We came to an elephant 
pit in which some animal had been trapped and made 
