JUJA FAEM; HIPPO AND LEOPARD 125 



The house at Juja Farm 

 Front a photograph by J. A Iden Loring 



with harsh, some with musical voices. Here for the first 

 time we saw the honey-guide, the bird that insists upon 

 leading any man it sees to honey, so that he may rob the 

 hive and give it a share. 



Game came right around the house. Hartebeests, wilde- 

 beests, and zebras grazed in sight on the open plain. The 

 hippopotami that lived close by in the river came out at 

 night into the garden. A- couple of years before a rhino 

 had come down into the same garden in broad daylight, 

 and quite wantonly attacked one of the Kikuyu laborers, 

 tossing him and breaking his thigh. It had then passed 

 by the house out to the plain, where it saw an ox cart, 

 which it immediately attacked and upset, cannoning off 

 after its charge and passing up through the span of 

 oxen, breaking all the yokes but fortunately not killing an 

 animal. Then it met one of the men of the house on 

 horseback, immediately assailed him, and was killed for 

 its pains. 



My host was about to go on safari for a couple of 

 months with Selous, and to manage their safari they had 



