TO THE UASIN GISHU 



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Cuninghame's and Tarlton's management. We had not 

 lost a single man by death. One had been tossed by a 

 rhino, one clawed by a leopard, and several had been sent 

 to hospital for dysentery, small-pox, or fever; but none had 

 died. While on the Guaso Nyero trip we had run into a 

 narrow belt of the dreaded tsetse fly, whose bite is fatal to 



Mr. Roosevelt photographing the speared lion 

 From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



domestic animals. Five of our horses were bitten, and 

 four of them died, two not until we were on the Uasin Gishu; 

 the fifth, my zebra-shaped brown, although very sick, ulti- 

 mately recovered, to the astonishment of the experts. Only 

 three of our horses lasted in such shape that we could ride 

 them in to Londiani; one of them being Tranquillity, and 

 another Kermit's white pony, Huan Daw, who was always 

 dancing and curvetting, and whom in consequence the 

 saises had christened "merodadi," the dandy. 



The first ten days of December I spent at Njoro, on the 

 edge of the Mau escarpment, with Lord Delamere. It is a 

 beautiful farming country; and Lord Delamere is a practi- 



