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to get a representative bag than formerly. Again, 

 although there are some, there must be very few 

 sportsmen who would not rather indulge in their sport 

 in reasonable comfort. Up to the last year, as each 

 year has passed bags of game have got better, that is 

 to say, variety greater and the average of heads 

 better ; while the difficulties, dangers and discomforts 

 have got less, till at the present time a lady of active 

 habits and a tolerably straight eye, accompanied by 

 one of the numerous class of white hunters, can in a 

 couple of months obtain a bag altogether beyond the 

 wildest dreams of the toughest and most adventurous 

 of the old pioneers. 



The present is the day of the sportsman, of the man 

 of riches, of the " white hunter," and of the record 

 breaker whom we can generally identify with the 

 American. The sportsman may include, and often 

 does, all the rest, but more often than not he is 

 unaccompanied by wealth, white hunters, or the desire 

 to break records. The Protectorate is now very largely 

 known and explored, and the game is, as I shall show, 

 very widely distributed ; but certain well-known routes 

 still hold by far the largest numbers and variety of game, 

 and it is all along these that naturally the white hunter 

 usually takes his clients. Among such routes are ; 

 along the Thika river till it joins the Tana, and then 

 along the Tana to the new Embu Bridge, across 

 Likipia to Rumunuti and so along the N. Guaso 

 Nyero river, up to and around Embu, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Simba and Makindu, across the Uasin 

 Guishu plateau and along the Nzoia river, through the 

 Loieta plains to the Amala river and the German 

 boundary, or along the S. Guaso Nyero. Along 

 these routes the white hunters hurry their employers, 



