ILLUSTRATIONS 



"These were the first wild lions I had ever seen" . Frontispiece 



FACING PACK 



"They sported a great variety of garments" 38 



"M'ganga, the headman, tall, fierce, big framed and bony" 38 



On the march 39 



"The blankets they were twisting most ingeniously into 



turbans" 39 



"The great tangled forests themselves" 42 



"Behind us marched the four gunbearers ; then the four syces" 43 



Memba Sasa 50 



Chanler's reedbuck '. 51 



Jackson's hartebeeste 62 



The oryx 63 



"The motionless and picturesque figure of Saa-sita (six 



o'clock)" 63 



Notata gazelle 64 



"Tall, beautiful falls, plunging several hundred feet into the 



forest" 65 



"They broke through a pass " 80 



"In an open grove of acacias, we pitched our tents" ... 81 

 "A great deal of time they spent before their tiny fires 



roasting meat and talking" 84 



"Distributing ''potio' or rations to the men" 84 



On the Northern Guaso Nyero River 85 



"At this point far up in its youth, it was a friendly river" . 85 



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