xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



I'AtiE 



" One solitary bowman .... ( autiously tlncadinj,' liis way 



til rough the nyika " 7^ 



'• I saw the huge beast stretched out in the thicket, stone dead " 8i 



" I took several photographs of the eland " 82 



" The horns .... ranked second to tlic best on record "' . . 83 



" Festooned with the graceful hanging nests of the weaver l)ird " 88 



"A ver)- fine Jackson's hartebeestc" 113 



'* Over he tumbled after going some dozen paces " 114 



"The falls on the Athi river" 117 



'' Dropping it dead within a dozen yards of him " 118 



'■ The safari donkeys complained bitterly .... at their 



unusually heavy loads'' 119 



"A couple of most playful lion cubs •' . 120 



'' And construct rude bridges over streams" 126 



" Rope to assist in crossing rivers" 127 



" A smiling M'Kikuyu chief" 132 



" Wambugu .... the local chief . . . readily consented to 



pose for a photograph " 1 36 



" In the full panoply of their Kikuyu ceremonial dress" .... 137 



'* We were not sorry to leave Nyeri " 141 



" The beautiful w^aters of Lake El Bolosat " 142 



A Masai inanyatta 153 



" The Masai chief Masekondi " 154 



Masekondi's wives and children j6o 



" His great stature is apparent'" 161 



" To see that the porters carried him gently ■■ 173 



The junction 174 



The gerenuk 175 



Hut in a Masai inanyatta 178 



" In appearance the Masai are slender'' 180 



" The Masai have a habit of distorting their ears '' 181 



The period of boyhood 183 



"E.xercises calculated to make the limbs supple" 187 



" No wonder that they inspired terror " 191 



" Carry ail .... which cannot be heaped on to the donkeys " . 194 



" Her distorted and scarred head" 195 



" Bowled over a very fine oryx " 204 



" Adding this much-prized trophy to her bag ■' 213 



