152 WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES 



After this he killed many elephants, and brought 

 to Mombasa in March over a ton of ivory. 



In March 1903 he came down to Mombasa to 

 refit and engage fresh porters. " This time I hope 

 to get further and fare better," he remarks. 



He is pretty severe on a certain writer who thinks 

 shooting an elephant is mere slaughter and yet sees 

 no sin in killing a harmless giraffe — 



" I saw 's new book the other day. What an 



old hypocrite he is ! Why, he actually gives a 

 photo of a dead giraffe. How a man who professes to 

 think the killing of an elephant a horrible crime 

 can shoot a poor harmless giraffe I fail to under- 

 stand. I suppose his definition of sport to be 

 whatever shooting he does, whilst everything else 

 is butchery. I should like to tackle him about 

 that dead giraffe. I do not think much of his 

 innumerable illustrations with telephoto lens. 

 Photography in books is overdone and wearisome. 

 The only way to get really good pictures is for 

 an artist to draw them from life." 



In 1903 and 1904 he hunted in Turkana, the 

 northern Gwaso Nyiro, and the Lorian Swamp 

 and Turkwel. 



" Camp on Gwaso Nyiro River, 



" December 8th, 1904. 



" My dear Millais, 



.... while your letter was on its way out, 

 I was making my w^ay to the Turkana country. 

 You will have heard something of my doings there 

 from MacLeod, as I have written to him since 

 my return. But it may interest you to see the 



