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not see him again. Then we spent some three hot 

 hours on customs and on shipping out trophies and 

 donkey saddles by freight. Also in getting our men all 

 inoculated for plague, a job which did not in the least 

 please them. It hurts somewhat. Cuninghame, like 

 an old fox, headed off possible complaints by announc- 

 ing that the inoculation was a sort of test; that those 

 whom it made ill and unable to work would be thus 

 proved plague-infected and must go in quarantine for 

 fifteen days. As quarantine scares them to death we 

 had no complaints! 



Then we went up to call on the Provincial Com- 

 missioner, who proved to be the brother of that Home 

 we formerly met at Mem. This is a very tall man, so 

 he is known as Long Home, and the other as Short 

 Home. He was extraordinarily cordial, and sent off a 

 wire to a man at Muhoroni asking about cob. Also 

 invited us to lunch. We captured our men and made 

 camp in an open space under a "bologna sausage tree.'^ 



Kisumu must be described in three parts: (i) At the 

 water 's edge are many huge corrugated iron structures 

 representing goods stores, machine shops, customs, and 

 shipyards. The ships are sent out in numbered pieces, 

 and are here put together like a jigsaw puzzle. Then 

 on the flat a little removed is a village of Indian dukkas 

 and native huts. Then up on a low volcanic ridge are 

 the houses and offices of the Europeans. These are 

 pretty scattered, have gardens, stone walls, shaded 



