OUR SECOND SAFARI 



quiry and reproach at me as he was being taken 

 away ; it made me feel very sad. Nevertheless the 

 poor little dog got slightly better, and after three 

 days ate a mutton chop, but on walking up some 

 steps from the garden his little heart was unable 

 to stand the strain and he fell dead. 



Again we left Nairobi station for Naivasha, 

 but this time porters were difficult to get. The act- 

 ing collector wired to us that there were none to 

 be had, but another man said he would do his best 

 for us, and got twenty-two on Saturday, the day we 

 arrived ; on Sunday only five of them remained, 

 the others had run away. But owing to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Tew we managed to get twenty-two 

 later, and started on Sunday morning, again in the 

 heat at 12.30, going by a different route to the one 

 before. We had another mishap this time, although 

 our pots and pans were well looked after. On ar- 

 riving at Naivasha, my husband discovered that 

 Saidi had brought another officer's rifle in our case, 

 instead of my husband's, and had sent his rifle to 

 the other officer's house, as he also was going 

 shooting. 



It was most annoying, as my husband had 

 tested the sights of his own rifle so carefully, and 

 the strange gun being a Rigby-Mauser, we had no 

 ammunition for it. We hastily sent back the other 

 man's by train. My husband could of course use 

 mine, but I did not like the idea of going into such 



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