Ways and Means 



hot spring on this island in the lake it is quite 

 possible to boil an egg, or a fish fresh from the 

 lake. 



The native town of Njemps is close by ; here 

 supplies can be obtained for one's caravan, and 

 this is a very good centre to sit down and shoot 

 from. If the time of the year is right, and the 

 surrounding country is covered with grass, the 

 district will swarm with game of all sorts : giraffe, 

 oryx beisa, Grant's (in small quantities), Thom- 

 son's, and Peters's gazelle, the zebra "of com- 

 merce " (which one will have got a horror of by 

 this time, owing to the caddish way in which 

 they alarm other animals), rhino, and up in the 

 Laikipia Hills is one of the only haunts of the 

 greater kudu in East Africa. Elephant pass 

 this way as well, in their half-yearly wanderings 

 from Laikipia to the Elgeyo escarpment on their 

 journey to Mount Elgon farther west. 



Stay for a good fortnight and shoot from this 

 spot, making two and three day marches from 

 it. Lion are also to be found here, as they had 

 been all the way up from Nakuru, the starting- 

 point. 



One must return by the same road at the end 

 of this trip, as the Nandi forests on the west are 

 devoid of game, and the Laikipia plateau is now 

 a reserve ; but in any case the march across 

 Laikipia is a hazardous undertaking, except in 

 the rains, on account of the water question. 



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