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and tea; then after reading some advertisements in a 

 last year's magazine, went to bed. Some time later, 

 I was awakened from a deep sleep by a motor car roar- 

 ing into camp. It contained Mike and two of the Ken- 

 brothers, who had set out to follow me several hours 

 after my departure from Gilgil. Mike's explanation for 

 not keeping his appointment was that he did not think 

 it possible for me to return from Kapsabet so quickly. 

 One brother back-tracked and the other three of us 

 fought rain and mud all the next day, being barely 

 able to get as far as Klein's Camp at the Gurmeti, 

 sixty miles short of our wilderness home. Here 

 we found comfortable huts for ourselves and for the 

 Nandi warriors. 



When the game country was reached and we began 

 to go through huge herds of wildebeest, zebra, topi, 

 Grant's and the lesser buck, there was much excite- 

 ment on board the truck, for in the Nandi reserve there 

 is very httle game outside of the forest dwellers, and 

 these are seldom observed. Near a place where we 

 had seen Hons before, a stop was made while Mike 

 pointed out fresh spoor. This started a prolonged war 

 chant, in which the spearmen told aU the hons what to 

 expect from the Nandi. 



It was an interesting journey all the way, giving the 

 three of us a great amount of pleasure at the expense 

 of the Masai, for as we passed through their reserve, 

 whenever we came to a manyatta our tribesmen would 

 start their war yell and the Masai would rush out to 

 watch us speed by. They stood in pop-eyed amaze- 

 ment, some of them, no doubt, thinking that their coun- 

 try was being invaded by Nandi warriors travehng in 

 motor trucks I 



