Joy of "Safari" Life 



your digestion a chance, turn out the light and 

 enjoy the finest and deepest of slumbers, to arise the 

 next morning thoroughly refreshed and in perfect 

 pink of condition for another day's sport. Some 

 may disagree with me. Chacun a son gout. But I 

 must quote a few words by a writer in the East 

 African Standard, who seems to be bitten the same 

 way as I am. He says : — 



*' It would be impossible for any writer to convey 

 to the Homelander, the smoke of whose neighbour's 

 chimney is rarely out of sight, a convincing impres- 

 sion of that weird experience, the first 'safari.' 

 Presently, however, the wanderer, whatever his 

 peculiar idiosyncrasy, must happen on what appears 

 to him to be the pick of the earth: to one man, 

 perhaps, the wonderful sweep of the enormous graz- 

 ing areas of the Highlands; to another, the ravines 

 of the great Rift Valley, the wonderful agricultural 

 districts of the Highland settlements, the big-game 

 areas of Ukamba, or the extraordinary rich flats 

 and valleys of the tropical coast belt. For the 

 predominant feature of British East Africa is its 

 remarkable variety and the scope it affords for 

 every kind of land settler." He also goes on to 

 explain the word " safari " as a " Swahili expression 

 for the travelling camp life amid primeval forest 

 and along untrodden stretches of pathless wilds, 

 peopled only by the whispering memories of primi- 

 tive man. For British East Africa is still the 

 paradise of the big-game tracker, and on 'safari, 'away 

 from ordinary routes, lions and leopards, elephant 



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