CHAPTER X 



PREPARATIONS FOR A SECOND EXPEDITION 



At the time I arrived in East Africa the Northern 

 Game Reserve was a large tract of country, about 

 which but very Httle was known, and of which 

 the boundaries, especially those to the north and 

 east, were of the vaguest. While the southern 

 and western sides were defined by recognisable 

 physical features, such as the Guaso Nyiro on the 

 south, and the Turkwell on the west, no natural 

 boundaries could be given on the north or east for 

 want of geographical knowledge of the country, and 

 on these two sides the limits of the Reserve were 

 merely arbitrarily marked out on an inaccurate map 

 by straight lines drawn along the 3rd parallel of 

 north latitude, and the 39th meridian of east 

 longitude. 



The whole Reserve was some thirty-eight thousand 

 square miles in area, or, in other words, as large as 



