Big Game Shooting 



journey back to Nairobi as would take him to 

 Kitui by the latter route. 



" We haven't got much money, but we do see 

 life ! " is a good old saying which appeals to most 

 of us. The man who invented that ought to have 

 been knighted for his pains ! Apropos of this, a 

 cheap trip, which is well worth taking, is up the 

 railway to Mohoroni Station, on the borderland 

 between the Nandi and Lumbwa countries, and 

 about twenty-five or thirty miles from Kisumu 

 (Port Florence) on the lake. 



One wants no porters at all for this, and with 

 luck one ought to get the two species one goes for 

 well inside a week. One is roan antelope, which 

 is a practical certainty there, and the other the 

 topi. It is rather a pity to leave the country 

 without having a try for either, as they are easily 

 obtainable by the laziest man in the kingdom. 

 One gets out of the train and lives in the Station 

 Dak Bungalow, which is very comfortable indeed, 

 and frequented in the evening by possibly one or 

 two settlers who drop in to hear the news. One 

 has a good dinner and a chat with any one there. 

 They are delighted to meet a new acquaintance, 

 to pick up any news about the outside world, as 

 they have been in comparative exile for months, 

 slaving on their farms, and continually worried 

 by Nandi raiders. They are real good fellows, 

 and will do anything to help one. Imagine your- 

 self tucked away and more or less forgotten ! 



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