Big Game Shooting 



The reason for this is that the journey from Voi 

 to Taveta is almost entirely without water at the 

 best of times, so that instead of hampering one- 

 self with a huge caravan of porters, it is cheaper 

 and easier to get a few at Voi, send one's baggage, 

 food, etc., over by relays to Taveta, and make 

 one's real start from this latter place, with porters 

 from the countryside there, who know the district 

 to be traversed after the waterless part has been 

 crossed. Whilst one's impedimenta are being 

 collected at Taveta one can spend the time most 

 profitably in a short journey to Lake Jipe over 

 the border, where the shooting is very good. I 

 have not actually been there, but it is so. 



On leaving the train at Voi we enter the Taru 

 Desert, and then one's troubles begin. This 

 merges into a district known as the Serengeti 

 Plain after leaving the Bura Hills behind to the 

 left. Guinea-fowl are to be met with on the first 

 part of the journey, which takes some four days, 

 and fringe-eared oryx in small numbers, with small 

 buck, the last part of the journey. However, it 

 is best not to linger on the way, but foot it hard 

 to get it over. All the game you meet there will 

 be seen afterwards in greater quantities. Lake 

 Jipe" I do not know, but a trip there would 

 be better than wasting time sitting down waiting 

 for the arrival of two or three caravan-loads of 

 stuff brought over by one's best and most trusted 

 headman. A trip up to the big German military 



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