CHAPTER XXIV 



This practically completed the trip into the "new" 

 country- . The rest of the journal is here included 

 simply for what interest may inhere in it as a hunting 

 narrative. On our return to Nairobi we resolved to go 

 into the forests about Mount Kenia in search of elephant. 

 There are a great many elephant there, but they dwell 

 in such thick jungle and are so truculently inclined that 

 Cuninghame had uttered his intention of never going 

 after them again. However, he changed his mind in the 

 enthusiasm of camp-fire talk. We purposed paying off 

 a portion of our men, and sending a small safari on to 

 Fort Hall — four days' march. There we would join 

 them by the new Thika tramway and two days ' march. 

 (The Journal Resumes) 



October 20. — Have only to record the extreme 

 pleasure we felt at our first gulp of the cooler air of the 

 highlands. For some months we have been in a high, 

 humid temperature, day and night; and we have al- 

 most forgotten what cool air feels like. At Nairobi ran 

 into James Barnes who, with Cherry Kearton, is out 

 here taking moving pictures of game. He says they 

 have films of thirty-three species, none of them fright- 

 ened in any way. 



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