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as beyond comparison more formidable. My own view is 

 that there is a very wide range of individual variation among 

 the individuals of each species, and, moreover, that the condi- 

 tions of country and surroundings vary so that one must 

 be very cautious about generalizing. Judging partly from 

 my own limited experience and partly from a very careful 

 sifting of the statements of many good observers with far 

 wider experience, I believe that, taking the average of a 

 large number of cases under varied conditions, the lion is the 

 most dangerous; that a buffalo that does charge, especially a 

 bull, when it has actually begun its charge, is more dangerous 

 than a lion and much more dangerous than an elephant; 

 that a single elephant is less dangerous to attack than a 

 single buffalo, and that the charge of an elephant is more 

 easily stopped or evaded than that of a buffalo; but that 

 elephants are very much more apt themselves to attack than 

 are buffaloes, and that therefore there is more danger in the 

 first approach of an elephant herd than is the case with 

 buffaloes. 



I received a letter from Lyman N. Hine, briefly re- 

 viewing the experiences of himself, Terry, and Folsom. 

 It is a very interesting presentation, and serves to round 

 out the doings of our party as a whole. It follows: 



After seeing you and Mr. Pirie disappear from view on your 

 fiery steeds, Jack, Lloyd, Outram, and I completed our prep- 

 arations for the trip, and that evening with our entire safari 

 entrained for Kijabe. The Uganda Railway furnished us 

 with a hearty meal of red dust, which we washed down with 

 Nairobi beer, the combination forming what might be called 

 a stomachic brick. Our feast was cut short by the train 

 bumping into Kijabe about I A.M., and the railway rest- 

 house there was a very welcome sight, affording us a com- 

 fortable night's, or rather morning's, sleep. 



On awakening at daybreak we had the first real view of our 

 safari, consisting of about forty natives, four mules, and two 

 carts, each drawn by sixteen oxen. These ox-carts were used 



