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village near Vol and could not be located. Advise 

 keeping him in jail." 



After rounding the Teita Hills we bore toward Kih- 

 manjaro. Toward evening, after we had passed Ta- 

 veta, a small herd of the rare gerenuk stood Uke stone 

 images as we approached and then fled panic-stricken 

 into thick bush. A stationary bull giraffe was mistaken 

 in the gloaming for a dead tree by the tenderfoot of 

 the party until it suddenly came to life as he almost 

 drove the truck under its arched neck. 



This same young man had the first thrilling experi- 

 ence of the safari. It happened this night as we were 

 motoring toward Moshi. The country was fairly pop- 

 ulated with Hons and this was the time for them be to 

 getting about, but as Mike and I had been through 

 here before, we never gave hons a thought and were 

 pushing on ahead in order to reach an old camping 

 place near a smafl stream. 



The headhghts of the second truck told that the 

 tenderfoot was following all right until we got into a 

 stony country covered with bunches of wild sisal and 

 thorn thickets. Here it was necessary to twist £uid 

 turn a great deal, and we could not see his Kghts for 

 any distance but felt that he would be right behind the 

 dust cloud, so continued on until a long straight place 

 was reached, when we found that the second truck 

 was missing. 



As he was a poor driver and was in a strange country 

 we thought he was just a httle bit slow, so waited half 

 an hour, putting in the time watching a small herd of 

 antelope which could be seen in the moonhght around a 

 tiny water hole. WTien he failed to show up, we 

 became a Httle bit uneasy and decided to return and 



