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cal and successful farmer, and the most useful settler, from 

 the stand-point of the all-round interests of the country, 

 in British East Africa. Incidentally, the home ranch was 

 most attractive especially the library, the room containing 

 Lady Delamere's books. Delamere had been himself a 

 noted big-game hunter, his bag including fifty-two lions; 



As he fell he gripped a spear -head in his jaws with such tremendous force 

 that he bent it double 



Front a photograph by Kerm.il Roosevelt 



but instead of continuing to be a mere sportsman, he turned 

 his attention to stock-raising and wheat-growing, and be- 

 came a leader in the work of taming the wilderness, of 

 conquering for civilization the world's waste spaces. No 

 career can be better worth following. 



During his hunting years Delamere had met with many 

 strange adventures. One of the lions he shot mauled him, 

 breaking his leg, and also mauling his two Somali gun- 

 bearers. The lion then crawled off into some bushes fifty 

 yards away, and camp was pitched where the wounded 



