Big Game Shooting 



passing under the foothills of the Laikipia 

 plateau, along the River Rongai, are rhino, a 

 few buffalo, and herds of Jackson's hartebeest. 

 I do not fancy that game preponderates in any- 

 thing like the quantity by the other route that it 

 does here. 



And so on to Baringo, about three days away, 

 with Laikipia overhanging this line of march on 

 the right, and the Kamasia Hills and Elgeyo 

 escarpment farther off in the distance on the 

 west. 



Baringo is a curious lake, full of hippos and 

 crocodiles. They say that the latter are not 

 man-eaters, and from all accounts that appears to 

 be true, but at the same time I wouldn't care 

 to give sixpence for myself if I tumbled in, 

 although I believe it is correct that there are 

 very few cases known of the women or children 

 being killed by them. A great point of interest 

 is a tiny rocky island near this end of the lake, 

 on which there is a boiling spring, showing that 

 the lake, which is in the Great Rift Valley, of 

 course, still bears evidence to present volcanic 

 action. Mount Andrew on Lake Rudolph, 

 farther north, is still in action, and Mount 

 Ebueru, close to Gilgil Station on the railway 

 overlooking Lake Naivasha, although it does not 

 erupt, spurts steam from twenty or thirty different 

 fissures along its base, quite close to the railway, 

 just like the safety-valve of an engine. In the 



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