CHAPTER IV 



JxJLY i8. — Started very early over the high hill on 

 which I hunted the day before, and down the other 

 side into the welter of smaller hills. When we were 

 halfway down two Masai with arms passed us on a run 

 without deigning us a greeting. Subsequent experi- 

 ence made us certain that these were at once spies on 

 us to see w^hich way we would go and messengers to 

 warn other manyattas to give us no information. At 

 the bottom of the hill we sent Sanguiki to a village to 

 try to find out something. He returned to tell us that 

 the Masai were kali sana* and would tell nothing. 

 Therefore we struck along the top of a likely grass 

 ridge that took our general direction, found a Masai 

 trail that went our way, and jogged on. The ridge, 

 after sLx or seven miles, ran down into a broad grass 

 ravine that led to a small river flowing along the base 

 of the high mountain wall. 



We were amused by a small herd of zebra that kept 

 just ahead of us, and seemed vastly indignant at being 

 repeatedly driven forward. In the grass swale I 

 jumped seven big eland at about fifty yards — a fine 

 sight. 



*Very fierce. 



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