SNOW MOUNTAINS, SOME SOCIETY, CLOTHES 



effect. Months may go by without a chance of 

 seeing the whole mountain, and weeks without 

 seeing even the base. 



On the particular morning to which I refer, 

 I fear wifely duty was forgotten, and my husband, 

 who was just off parade, had to call several times 

 before I realised that to a healthy hungry man 

 even Kenia was not satisfying enough. 



On ordinary days the plain appears to melt 

 into the clouds on the horizon, but very often in 

 the evening the clouds divide like a curtain and a 

 large brown mass appears with its top still en- 

 veloped in the mist. If the mountain is seen like 

 this, there is a theory in Nairobi that rain is coming. 

 It is only in the early hours of a bright sunny morn- 

 ing Kenia is seen in its full beauty. The mountain 

 is about thirty miles from Nairobi and rises to the 

 height of 18,620 feet. Dr. Krapf was the first 

 white man to discover it in 1849. The natives 

 around Kenia are not so friendly as others. While 

 I was in Nairobi the 3rd Battalion King's African 

 Kifles sent a patrol into the Embo country to im- 

 press the natives with our strength. The officer in 

 charge was lucky enough to bag six lions, the skins 

 of which he triumphantly brought back and hung 

 round his verandah to dry. But, alas ! Indians, 

 and natives too, love the claws as charms against 

 various evils, and many were stolen off his skins, 

 thereby much spoiling them. 



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