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waving his spear and uttering deep-toned shouts, with 

 what seemed a ludicrous disproportion of effort to the 

 result needed. 



The game comes right to the outskirts of Nairobi. 

 One morning Kermit walked out ft-om the McMillans' 

 town-house, where we were staying, in company with 

 Percival, the game-ranger, and got photographs of 

 zebras, kongoni, and Kavirondo cranes ; and a leopard 

 sometimes came up tiirough the garden on to the 

 veranda of the house itself. 



Antelopes speedily become very tame, and recognize 

 clearly their friends. Leshe Tarlton's brother was 

 keeping a couple of young kongoni and a partly-grown 

 Grant's gazelle on his farm just outside Nairobi. 

 Tarlton's young antelopes went freely into the country 

 round about, but never fled with the wild herds ; and 

 they were not only great friends with Tarlton's dogs, 

 but recognized them as protectors. Hyenas and other 

 beasts frequently came round the farm after nightfall, 

 and at their approach the antelopes fled at speed to 

 where the dogs were, and then could not be persuaded 

 to leave them. 



We spent a delightful week at Juja Farm, and then 

 moved to Kamiti Ranch, the neighbouring farm, owned 

 by Mr. Hugh H. Heatley, who had asked me to visit 

 him for a bufialo hunt. While in the hitjhlands of 

 British East Africa it is utterly impossible for a stranger 

 to realize that he is under the Equator ; the climate is 

 delightful and healthy. It is a white man's country, a 

 country which should be filled with white settlers ; and 

 no place could be more attractive for visitors. There is 

 no more danger to health incident to an ordinary trip to 

 East Africa than there is to an ordinary trip to the 

 Riviera. Of course, if one goes on a hunting trip there 



