GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



the bamboos after tea, and came back very tired 

 and having seen nothing. 



During the night Baruku slept one end of their 

 tent with Saidi, and the head porter the other, with 

 the new porters roped together in the middle, so 

 they should not escape. So next morning we were 

 able to start back. 



The nights were very cold indeed, ice always 

 on our water ; the porters felt it very much, hud- 

 dling together in their blankets round their fires. 

 We tried a new way down, back over the other 

 side of Kinangop, but as it led through elephant 

 tracks and impassable bamboos, I was not anxious 

 for my husband to go, as he would be helpless if 

 he came across and wounded an elephant. Be- 

 cause I insisted on going if he went, he, being 

 afraid for my chances, turned aside, and we re- 

 turned down the way we came up. We saw sev- 

 eral smaller traps of the same kind as before, but 

 evidently set for spur-fowl. 



My husband never shot an animal unless abso- 

 lutely obliged ; if he did not want its head as a 

 specimen and we had any meat at all, the animal 

 went free. So we had had one impala, roasted, 

 hot, cold, curried, minced, and a dish of its liver 

 and kidney, ever since it was shot, as it kept well 

 in the cold of the mountain ; but one rather tired 

 of it, although impala is very good to eat. As we 

 did not know we should get no more meat the 



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