THE SIMPLE LIFE 



as a man walking soon sends them galloping off. 

 A large wild bush pig scampered away in front of 

 us. 



Our bungalow was on a hill above Nairobi 

 Town, which is situated on the plain below ; through 

 field glasses I used to watch storms come up. First 

 a large storm of dust crept along and covered 

 Nairobi, then came on towards us. With it we found 

 a huge gale of wind ; it brought along a thick cloud 

 of rain which fell in heavy drops ; sometimes, from 

 being just on the edge of the storm we had a few 

 heavy drops of rain only, and then, as it passed 

 quickly over, we could watch it fade away. 



During the first few months in a new country 

 everything is of such great interest, so new and so 

 different to what one has seen before. Little things 

 which one fails to notice afterwards amuse one 

 then. While walking one day we saw a lady busy 

 dressmaking ; I suppose I must have looked curi- 

 ously at her, for her friend sitting beside her held 

 " it " up for me to see. " It " was a leather strap 

 with two rows of beads run along it and a fringe 

 of little pieces of chain. I said " Mzuri " (pretty), 

 which pleased the lady, and she said, pointing to 

 rolls of fat which surrounded her ample waist, that 

 it was to be worn there. She herself was in 

 Kikuyu attire, wearing rows and rows of steel wire 

 and beads and a small piece of cloth. 



In the colonies we are very loyal, and some/^te 



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