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station higher up on the slopes of the mountain, 

 Moshi, will be well worth while. It is worth 

 seeing, and the officers are always glad to see 

 and make friends with parties coming to shoot in 

 the neighbourhood. By the way, elephants are 

 barred in the Moshi district, which extends for 

 a long way up the boundary, in fact, as far as 

 Lake Natron. 



When everything has been brought together at 

 Taveta, all arrangements made with the help 

 of the collector there, details settled, and all 

 ready, the time has come to depart. One will 

 start through cultivated land at first, banana 

 groves which shake and whistle in the wind, 

 sounding like rain on the leaves outside one's tent 

 in the evening, through fields of matama and sweet 

 potatoes straggling over the ground haphazard. 

 They are a cunning race of husbandmen, these 

 dwellers on the mountain-side. Keep highish up, 

 with the mountain towering on the left, round the 

 lesser peak of Kibawenzi, towards the district of 

 Laitokitok. There will not be much game so high 

 up on the mountain-side, but the view for two or 

 three marches will compensate one for that, and 

 more besides. The snow-clad peak turning rosy 

 in the evening as the sun sets, with all the world 

 stretched beneath in shadow, the horizon to the 

 west clear-cut beneath a sapphire African sky, 

 and the picture framed with forest trees, makes 

 one think a bit. And so on the next day, when 



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