With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



at the time of the Masika the country round about would 

 be covered with water for miles. 



It is not difficult to travel in the Masai-Nyika during 

 the rainy season when water is abundant, apart from the 

 simple difficulty of finding one's way between the thorns 

 and the bushes and extricating oneself from the long 

 rank grass, often as high as a man. It is very different 



A WHITE-ANT HILL ON THE VELT NEAR THE COAST 



during the drought. Unless one has reliable knowledge 

 beforehand, one is never sure where the next clrinking- 

 place will be found. Even if information is obtained 

 'with regard to some spot where water was found only 

 a short time before, it is not to be relied on, for in the 

 fiery breath of the sun and the wind of the plains it will 

 evaporate in a few days ! We have often been obliged 

 to travel back more than twenty miles to find water, and 



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