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to get him out of the swamp, finally burning all of it 

 that was not too wet ; but we never saw him again. 



We recrossed the high hill country, through mists 

 and driving rains, and were back at Londiani on the 

 last day of November. Here, with genuine regret, we 

 said good-bye to our safari ; for we were about to leave 

 East Africa, and could only take a few of our personal 

 attendants with us into Uganda and the Nile Valley. 

 I was really sorry to see the last of the big, strong, 

 good-natured porters. They had been with us over 

 seven months, and had always behaved well — though 

 this, of course, was mainly owing to Cuninghame's and 

 Tarlton's management. We had not lost a single man 

 by death. One had been tossed by a rhino, one clawed 

 by a leopard, and several had been sent to hospital for 

 dysentery, small-pox, or fever ; but none had died. 

 While on the Guaso Nyero trip we had run into a 

 narrow belt of the dreaded tsetse fly, whose bite is fatal 

 to domestic animals. Five of our horses were bitten, 

 and four of them died, two not until we were on the 

 Uasin Gishu ; the fifth, my zebra -shaped brown, 

 although very sick, ultimately recovered, to the astonish- 

 ment of the experts. Only three of our horses lasted 

 in such shape that we could ride them into Londiani ; 

 one of them being Tranquillity, and another Kermit's 

 white pony, Huan Daw, who was always dancing and 

 curvetting, and wliom iji consequence the saises had 

 christened '• merodadi," the dandy. 



The hrst ten days of December 1 spent at Njoro, on 

 the edge of the JNlau escarpment, with Lord Delamere. 

 It is a beautiful farming country ; and Lord Delamere 

 is a practical and successful farmer, and the most useful 

 settler, from tlie standpoint of the all-round interests of 

 tlie country, in British East Africa. Incidentally, the 



