CHAPTER VI 



East Africa 



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During the late war I found myself for three years 

 in German East Africa, and from a big gam.e point 

 of view I saw some strange sights. F. C. Selous, 

 George Outram and I were officers in the same battahon, 

 and on one occasion went on a fourteen days' patrol 

 to discover where the Germans obtained water when 

 they made their long treks to blow up the Uganda 

 Railway. We found the little stream, and traced it to 

 where it sank in the sandy bottom of a small donga. 

 I photographed it with a small stereo-camera, and then 

 we went on. We had to go warily, for we had only 

 some sixty rifles, whereas the Germans generally had 

 250 rifles and four machine-guns. Water was carried 

 in bags. As we were making for the German border, 

 which was a long range of hills in front of us, I noticed 

 out of what you might term the bush plain on our 

 left a small pyramid - shaped hill. Kilimanjaro was 

 on our right, some forty miles away. In a little 

 depression we came upon a place amongst red thorns 

 where the elephants had been playing havoc, and on 

 looking closer I discovered some wonderful ground 



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