THE STORY OF AN OUTING 



miles from Nairobi, where week-enders keep the game 

 well exercised, the average shot is over three hundred 

 yards. The country is diversified with plain and 

 undulation, rising to the dignity of mountains, every- 

 where covered with luxuriant Vegetation, well kempt, well 

 groomed in appearance, with new and strange flora, 

 with flowering shrubs and trees and all things beautiful, 

 the farthest remove possible from the jungle that my 

 imagination had always pictured. Of course, there is 

 thick cover along streams and swamps where lion, ele- 

 phant, and buffalo can seek safety if they like. The 

 streams and swamps furnish such cover, but the lion 

 likes the open, and the leopard, they say, will lie in the 

 grass and let you pass within a few feet of him as long 

 as he feels that he is undiscovered. 



Decaying vegetation of the centuries has made mill- 

 ions of acres of rich alluvial soil; in places the soil is very 

 deep. These rich plains and luxuriant vegetation are 

 bound some day to furnish sustenance to a better race, 

 as the crowded centers of more civilized nations send 

 here their overflow to wage the never-ending battle of 

 the survival of the fittest. 



