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Two Kikuyu boys 327 



My boma where I was camped alone 328 



An oryx bull 330 



Ivory-nut palms on the Guaso Nyero 334 



The Guaso Nyero 337 



A Boran camp 339 



A domesticated young male eland at Meru 343 



Helping a donkey across the stream 347 



A mixed herd of Grevy's and Burchell's zebras 352 



Group The old bull Athi giraffe. The reticulated giraffe 355 



Dressing the porter who was tossed by the rhino 363 



Group Black-and-white crow. Sparrow-lark. Ant wheatear. Ostrich nest. 



Rusty rock-rat. Sand-rat. African hedgehog. "Mole-rat." .... 371 



Juma Yohari with the impalla killed by Kermit Roosevelt at Lake Hannington 377 



Mr. Roosevelt in a bamboo forest ... . . . 381 



Kassitura with the roan antelope . . 384 



A hyena by flashlight . . 387 



Yohari with the waterbuck shot by Kermit Roosevelt 391 



Tarlton and singsing shot by Mr. Roosevelt 394 



Juma Yohari with Nilotic bushbuck 397 



Round the elephant 402 



The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had gotten inside the huge 



body 403 



Mr. Roosevelt and some of the Nandi warriors 406 



Rearing, the lion struck the man, bearing down the shield . . 411 



Drawn by Philip R. Goodwin 



The Nandi dance around the speared lion 413 



Mr. Roosevelt photographing the speared lion 415 



As he fell he gripped a spear-head in his jaws with such tremendous force that 



he bent it double .... 416 



