CHAPTER XVI 



OUE THIED SAFAEI AND SECOND EHINO 



Gilgil — a hot march — LaKe Olbolossat (or Elboglosat) — we hear 

 of lion — an exciting rhino chase — hippos — eland — wild pig 

 — my husband ordered to Zanzibar. 



This time, instead of starting at Naivasha, we took 

 our porters on from there and brought them in the 

 train to Gilgil, a couple of stations farther up the 

 Uganda Railway. At Naivasha the train stops 

 to give us time to get out and have tea in a little 

 waiting-room. I was rather amused while refresh- 

 ing myself to hear a young woman say to her little 

 girl, who with her had got out of the train for tea (the 

 little girl by-the-bye was eating heartily), " You seem 

 to be doing very well. Tommy, are you not, my son ? " 

 " It," the child, had long hair and was palpably a 

 girl, the lady herself presently smoked a cigarette, 

 which she could not possibly have enjoyed, as there 

 was such a high wind blowing. 



When we arrived at Gilgil at six o'clock on 

 Christmas Day we had dinner and spent the night 

 in the waiting-room, a strange Christmas dinner 



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