XVII. 

 AN OSTRICH FARM AT MACHAKOS. 



THIS has to do with a lion hunt on the Kapiti 

 Plains. On the veranda at Nairobi I had 

 some time previous met Clifford Hill, who had 

 invited me to visit him at the ostrich farm he 

 and his cousin were running in the mountains 

 near Machakos. Some time later, a visit to Juja 

 Farm gave me the opportunity. Juja is only 

 a day's ride from the Hills'. So an Africander, 

 originally from the south, Captain D., and I sent 

 across a few carriers with our personal effects, 

 and ourselves rode over on horseback. 



Juja is on the Athi Plains. Between the 

 Athi and Kapiti Plains runs a range of low 

 mountains around the end of which one can make 

 his way as around a promontory. The Hills' 

 ostrich farm was on the highlands in the bay on 

 the other side of the promontory. 



It was towards the close of the rainy season, 



