CHAPTER XV 



BIG GAME SHOOTING UNDEE A BED 



Boer encampment — Poison for arrows — A leopard under a bed — 

 the King's African Eifies go to Zanzibar. 



One often heard the sound of a rifle on the plains 

 below Nairobi. The officers were forbidden to 

 shoot there, it was a Boer who shot. 



A large number have trekked up from the 

 South as they would not take the oath of allegiance 

 after the South African War ; the Germans wisely 

 turned them out of their territory, and now they 

 were under canvas on ours — we are so generous ! 

 (To every one but our own.) They shot the game 

 without a licence, making it scarce and wild. 



A lady I know took one of their girls on as a nurse, 

 to try if they were any use as such. But the girl 

 was one of few words, and soon got home-sick (?), and 

 ran back to her waggon ; but evidently they did not 

 receive her back with open arms, as she reappeared 

 again in the course of a few days. One day she 

 offered to take the children out for a walk, but my 

 friend said she was too untidy, her hair especially, 



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