80 THE LAND OF THE LION 
sleep well, and when we reached Laikipia we were fortunate 
indeed in securing the help of a medical missionary, who 
probed and lanced the arm, leaving in drainage tubes, so 
that in a week all swelling had gone. 
Nine weeks after his mauling, Momba marched off joy- 
ously on an eighty mile tramp to greet his four expectant 
Kikuyu wives, dropping sundry hints that as he was now 
possessed of seventy-five rupees he might add to their 
number! 
