CHAPTER X 



ELEPHANT HUNTING ON MOUNT KENIA 



ON July 24th, in order to ship our fresh accumulations 

 of specimens and trophies, we once more went into Nairobi. 

 It was a pleasure again to see its tree-bordered streets and 



Meru porters carrying trophy ivory 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



charming houses bowered in vines and bushes, and to 

 meet once more the men and women who dwelt in the 

 houses. I wish it were in my power to thank individually 

 the members of the many East African households of which 

 I shall always cherish warm memories of friendship and 

 regard. 



At Nairobi I saw Selous, who had just returned from 

 a two months' safari with McMillan, Williams, and Judd. 

 Their experience shows how large the element of luck 

 is in lion hunting. Selous was particularly anxious to kill 

 a good lion; there is nowhere to be found a more skilful or 

 more hard-working hunter; yet he never even got a shot. 



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