Preface 



Of course if one dives off after a certain animal 

 to a beastly, stony, waterless part, one may find 

 it not so much like the Garden of Eden as one 

 expected, even after being warned ; but if the 

 shooter does go he will probably get his beast 

 if he makes up his mind to try. 



Some parts are a veritable paradise from the 

 scenery and vegetation point of view, and there 

 is game as well in all probability ; and there are 

 other places where game is all in all and scenery a 

 minor point. 



Let our friend go to the top of the Mau Plateau 

 and cast his eyes on the forest round him and 

 the misty Rift Valley thousands of feet below 

 him. 



He can shoot on the Tana River and have the 

 snow-clad peak of Kenia in view all the time 

 from his base of river scenery and undulating 

 wooded plains. 



Again, he might wander about round the forests 

 at the foot of Kilimanjaro, which will not dis- 

 appoint him ; nor will the game either. Kiliman- 

 jaro is the highest mountain in Africa, and is 

 worth going a long way to see it as I have from 

 my grass house. I lived on the side of a small 

 hill, and could feel quite frosty, looking over the 

 tropical forest at my feet, steaming with damp 

 and humming with mosquitoes, at Kilimanjaro's 

 double snow-clad top, 19,000 feet above the clouds. 

 Then there are the flowers and the butterflies, 



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