Ways and Means 



of the expense connected with a camp and porters, 

 and no trouble with either into the bargain, 

 together with the fact of the almost certainty of 

 bagging both species, is worth the comparative 

 rest and ease and the slight expense incurred in 

 doing so. 



There is also another animal to be met with in 

 the district. At the next station up the line to- 

 wards the Lake, Kibigori, there is a very well- 

 known herd of elephants, which seem to haunt the 

 place. They have been tremendously shot at, how- 

 ever, and consequently are very savage and vicious 

 when met with, and the fact of several having been 

 bagged out of the herd from time to time recently, 

 makes it doubtful if they are worth while trying 

 for, as there may only be cows, which are barred, 

 in the herd, together with young males, which it is 

 a shame to shoot. The country is open, covered 

 with long grass, and orchard-like in appearance. 

 It is necessary to obtain information from the 

 station-master at Kibigori as to the whereabouts 

 of the herd, and if they are some way off it may 

 be waste of time trying for them. 



A spare day at Mohoroni may very well be 

 spent in a five-mile climb to Soba, a civil station 

 perched up on a lower spur of the Nandi escarp- 

 ment. It makes one a bit heated, to say the least 

 of it, but the view is great. To the west the lake 

 shimmers in the distance ; in front are the Lumbwa 

 Hills, in the comparative foreground, beyond 



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