Big Game Shooting 



wandering round the Athi Plains as a trial trip — 

 firstly, to see how one's caravan shakes down and 

 find out what one has forgotten ; and, secondly, 

 after lions, which are on the warpath in large 

 quantities, pursuing the innumerable large herds 

 of game collected here. 



The south of the railway is a game reserve 

 right up to the German boundary, extending 

 along the railway from somewhere near Mount 

 Kijabi, at the edge of the Great Rift Valley, on 

 the Kikuyu escarpment, as far down as Tsavo 

 Station, where the Tsavo River makes the 

 southern boundary to Kilimanjaro. So this side 

 of the railway is barred, as well as a half-mile 

 strip along the northern side. 



A good trip for the above-mentioned purposes 

 would be to march one's porters down by the side 

 of the railway, cross the Athi River near the 

 station, and proceed to Stony Athi. One could 

 follow by train the next day, having got permis- 

 sion to stop the train at Stony Athi, as the station 

 there has been done away with. The reed beds 

 there usually harbour a lion, if not two. After 

 which make a bee-line for Lucania, near the hills 

 bounding the Athi Plains towards Machakos. 

 Thence follow along the foot of the hills by 

 Koma Rock, which rises out of the plain by 

 itself and cannot be mistaken, camping there en 

 route to Donyo Sabuk, where one can cross the 

 Athi River, near the falls, and so back to 



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