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ten a hole through the abdominal wall of tough muscle and 

 thrust his head through. The wedge-shaped head had 

 slipped through the hole all right, but the muscle had then 

 contracted, and the hyena was fairly caught, with its body 

 inside the elephant's belly, and its head thrust out through 

 the hole. We took several photos of the beast in its queer 

 trap. 



After breakfast we rode back to our camp by the swamp. 

 Akeley and Clark were working hard at the elephant skins; 

 but Mrs. Akeley, Stevenson, and McCutcheon took lunch 

 with us at our camp. They had been having a very success- 

 ful hunt; Mrs. Akeley had to her credit a fine maned lion 

 and a bull elephant with enormous tusks. This was the 

 first safari we had met while we were out in the field; though 

 in Nairobi, and once or twice at outlying bomas, we had 

 met men about to start on, or returning from, expeditions; 

 and as we marched into Meru we encountered the safari of 

 an old friend, William Lord Smith "Tiger" Smith who, 

 with Messrs. Brooks and Allen, were on a trip which was 

 partly a hunting trip and partly a scientific trip undertaken 

 on behalf of the Cambridge Museum. 



From the 'Nzoi we made a couple days' march to Lake 

 Sergoi, which we had passed on our way out; a reed-fringed 

 pond, surrounded by rocky hills which marked about the 

 limit to which the Boer and English settlers who were tak- 

 ing up the country had spread. All along our route we en- 

 countered herds of game; sometimes the herd would be of 

 only one species; at other times we would come across a 

 great mixed herd, the red hartebeest always predominating; 

 while among them might be zebras, showing silvery white 

 or dark gray in the distance, topis with beautifully colored 

 coats, and even waterbuck. We shot what hartebeests, 

 topis, and oribis were needed for food. All over the uplands 

 we came on the remains of a race of which even the memory 

 has long since vanished. These remains consist of large, 

 nearly circular walls of stones, which are sometimes roughly 

 squared. A few of these circular enclosures contain more 



