OUR SECOND SAFARI 



It was here on this piece of road, a short time be- 

 fore, one of our captains coming from Nyeri bagged a 

 very good elephant, which was a great piece of luck, 

 as elephants travel so far in such a short time that 

 coming across one accidentally on the march was 

 excellent. 



It takes sportsmen sometimes months with 

 trained trackers to get their elephants. We saw 

 plenty of old elephant tracks everywhere around 

 us and one of an impala, but that was all. The 

 view quite repaid us for our walk. 



Saidi turned out a poor fellow, of very little use ; 

 he did not offer to come out and bring a second 

 rifle, and was always tired, though never of eating. 



Before breakfast next morning Baruku came in 

 to tell us that four more porters had run away ; 

 that settled our plans for us — we could not move 

 from where we were ; we had not the requisite 

 number of porters. So we told Baruku and the 

 head porter to go out and try and capture some 

 Kikuyu to act as our porters, as they passed along 

 the road, and we decided to take a long walk on 

 the chance of finding an elephant. We went 

 through swamps and up and down hills and then 

 through endless bamboo woods and other woody 

 places, but saw no elephants. We came across 

 quite a fresh track, but the droppings looked 

 twelve hours old, although the footprints had not 

 collected water, so they were made since the heavy 



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