406 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



At Sergoi Lake there is a store kept by Mr. Kirke, a 

 South African of Scotch blood. With a kind courtesy which 

 I cannot too highly appreciate he, with the equally cordial 

 help of another settler, Mr. Skally also a South African, 

 but of Irish birth and of the district commissioner, Mr. 

 Corbett, had arranged for a party of Nandi warriors to come 

 over and show me how they hunted the lion. Two Dutch 



Mr. Roosevelt and some of the Xandi warriors 

 From a photograph by Kerntii Roosevelt 



farmers, Boers, from the neighborhood, had also come; 

 they were Messrs. Mouton and Jordaan, fine fellows both, 

 the former having served with De Wet during the war. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Corbett who were hospitality itself had 

 also come to see the sport; and so had Captain Chapman, 

 an English army officer who was taking a rest after several 

 years' service in Northern Nigeria. 



The Nandi are a warlike pastoral tribe, close kin to 

 the Masai in blood and tongue, in weapons and in manner 



