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of hunting elephants in the new colony of British 

 East Africa. The cost of making such an expedition, 

 however, for the moment deterred him. Neverthe- 

 less, he returned to Mombasa in 1890 and took 

 service under the East African Company. His first 

 work was to travel inland with four other white 

 men to the Victoria Nyanza to find a route for the 

 projected railway. On his return from this journey, 

 which was conducted through the hostile Masai 

 country, he again went in with sixty men to try 

 and find an easier way. One night the Masai 

 attacked the camp, and Arthur, who had just risen 

 from his bed, and was in the act of unfastening 

 his rifle from the tent-pole, got a spear through his 

 forearm. 



A good line over easy ground was, however, 

 found for the railway, and Neumann returned to 

 the coast, where he found a letter offering him a 

 magistracy in Zululand. This he accepted, but 

 in one year he was tired of the monotonous work, 

 and returned to Mombasa in 1893, where he 

 organised his first big expedition after elephants. 



In the three following years he spent all his 

 time wandering in the far interior, then quite 

 unknown, amongst the Ndorobo savages, in the 

 neighbourhood of Mount Kenia and the Lorogi 

 Mountains. Here he occupied himself making 

 friends with the natives, trading, and hunting 

 elephants, with perhaps greater success than has 

 fallen to the lot of any English hunter. 



First he made direct for Laiju and the Ndorobo 

 country, east of Mount Kenia. In February 1894 

 he reached the game country and killed his first 

 elephants. During April he traversed the Jambeni 



