GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



under circumstances quite out of the ordinary. It 

 was a glorious moonlight night, and so peaceful as 

 we sat outside on the little station platform ; our 

 porters around their fire on the bank by the line. 

 We arose before half-past four next morning and 

 marched on and on over hills and down dales, till 

 twelve o'clock. It was very hot and tiring in 

 places, especially as we saw little or no game. 



We camped about fifteen miles from Gilgil, our 

 march was longer than we intended, as we did not 

 recognise the dried-up stream which was the river 

 we were supposed to camp by. The first day, one 

 always feels out of training. The spot we chose 

 was a pretty one, but so dried up and the water 

 muddy. We passed parts of sheep which must 

 have died on a march, and a dead hyaena, a rough 

 mangy-looking brute. 



This time our safari consisted of twenty-two 

 porters, two orderlies, and Baruku, to say nothing 

 of our old friend Mark. 



So anxious were we to get off early next day, 

 that I was looking at the watch soon after one 

 o'clock. We called the boys at what we thought 

 was four o'clock, and had breakfast a little later, 

 then waited for dawn, which refused to appear ; we 

 began to wonder why, till I found my husband's 

 watch was wrong, and the boys had been called by 

 us at three o'clock. 



That march seemed terribly long and severe, 



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