<+> By the Njiri Lakes 



seen, and the wild animals came down to quench their thirst 

 in no way disturbed by my presence. For days together 

 I occupied myself exclusively with photography, getting 

 any number of pictures and so managing that hundreds 

 and hundreds of gnus and zebras hung round my camp 

 almost like tame deer. Here they grazed along with flocks 

 of the beautiful crested cranes and Egyptian geese : 



CORMORANTS (PHALACROCORAX AFRICANUS, GM.) DRYING THEIR FEATHERS 



IN THE SUN 



hundreds of Thomson's gazelle grazed like sheep among 

 them, and wherever the eye turned it saw the rough, dark, 

 strongly marked forms of the old gnu-bulls as they grazed 

 apart, cut off from the herds. 



For miles there are no shallows in these lakes. 



Where currents issuing from the velt flow to the regular 



marshes, the water reached up to our waists. Thickets of 



reeds border the banks far and wide, and the water is full 



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