HUNTING AND HUNTED IN BELGIAN CONGO 



admit that the country is " tolerable," " but the whole 

 thing is dreadful after our large house at home, where 

 we always kept our four servants, horses, motor car," 

 and so forth, and yet these people have come out to Africa 

 to live on the 200.00 rupees that the husband earns 

 per month. Why did they leave their luxurious sur- 

 roundings ? 



The settlers in British East Africa are the finest 

 fellows one can meet, and the country is very fortunate 

 in having such a class of men to open it up. I spent 

 a very enjoyable afternoon looking over Messrs. Newland, 

 Tarlton, and Co.'s showrooms and stores, where we 

 obtained some very useful material for our trip. There 

 was a football match one Saturday afternoon, at which 

 Sir Percy Girouard, the deservedly popular Governor, 

 was present, and I was impressed by the enterprise of 

 a local photographer, who was perched on the roof of a 

 small shanty overlooking the field busily engaged taking 

 a bioscope picture of the game. Your African native 

 male and female is nothing if not a keen sport. Large 

 numbers of them were standing round taking a great 

 interest in the game, chattering gaily, one group watching 

 the bioscope man open-mouthed as every now and then 

 he turned the handle of his instrument. They had seen 

 cameras before, but the handle on this one gave rise to 

 great speculation, one of them suggested that it was a 

 gun, and pointed to a player who had been charged over 

 in the game ; a roar of laughter greeted this and the 

 many remarks that followed. 



1 thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Nairobi, and received 

 the greatest kindness from all with whom I came in 

 contact. My friend went ahead of me some seven days 

 to get things ready and engage porters at Kampala. 

 The races were on in Nairobi during my last week, and 

 I still retain very pleasant memories of that time, in- 

 cluding an excellent programme of music played by the 



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