xiv ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Group What one has to shoot at when after hippo on water. Mr. 



Roosevelt's hippo charging open-mouthed 212 



Charged straight for the boat, with open jaws, bent on mischief . . 216 

 Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Good-win. 



Group Black-backed jackal. Tree hyrax. Big gazelle buck. Pelican. 



Spotted genet. White-tailed mongoose. Porcupine. Baboon . 220 



Towing in bull hippo, Lake Naivasha 224 



Kikuyu Ngama, Neri 234 



Group Camping after death of first bull. The porters exult over the 



death of the bull 244 



Falls on slope of Kenia near first elephant camp 248 



The charging bull elephant 252 



"He could have touched me with his trunk." 

 Photogravure from a drawing by Philip R. Goodwin. 



The first bull elephant 256 



A herd of elephant in an open forest of high timber 258 



Group The herd getting uneasy. The same herd on the eve of 



charging 260 



Mr. Roosevelt's and Kermit's camp near which they got the rhino and 



elephant 266 



My boma where I camped alone 272 



Group An oryx bull. An oryx cow 274 



Group The Guaso Nyero. Ivory-nut palms on the Guaso Nyero . . 280 



Group The old bull Athi giraffe. The reticulated giraffe .... 300 



Group Black-and-white crow. Sparrow-lark. Ant wheatear. Ostrich 



nest. Rusty rock-rat. Sand-rat. African hedgehog. "Mole-rat" 316 



Juma Yohari with the impalla killed by Kermit Roosevelt at Lake 



Hannington 322 



The broken horn of another ram imbedded in the buck's neck. 



Tarlton and singsing shot by Mr. Roosevelt 342 



The hyena which was swollen with elephant meat had gotten inside the 



huge body 350 



