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is known of the fishing, except that the fish are there, 

 and will afford excellent sport to the man who knows 

 something of the game. 



Most important of all is the fact that the prospects 

 of successfully acclimatising trout in the high altitude 

 cool streams are most encouraging. They are already 

 doing well in the few streams in the Aberdare moun- 

 tains into which they have been introduced, and the 

 fish rise freely to a fly and have already been caught 

 weighing as much as 6\ lb. Fishing in these streams 

 is at present prohibited until they are thoroughly 

 stocked, and it is intended during the next eighteen 

 months to stock all the cold, clear streams flowing 

 from Mount Kenia, and, if possible, any other 

 streams in the country which may prove to be suitable. 

 If these experiments are successful, and there is now 

 little doubt that they will ultimately be so, the trout 

 fishing in British East Africa will be some of the best 

 obtainable in the world. The lucky angler will find 

 himself camped among the most delightful surround- 

 ings. Semi-tropical and Alpine vegetation mingle in 

 wonderful variety and luxuriance, and will delight him 

 if he is also a botanist ; vast areas of cedar, juniper, 

 and podocarpus forests, and undulating ridges of giant 

 heather and open moorland, intersected by numerous 

 rushing mountain streams, clear as crystal and cold 

 as ice, flowing from the wonderful equatorial snows. 

 The zoologist angler also will find much that will 

 delight him and send the blood tingling through his 

 veins, for in British East Africa it will not be a case 

 of " here and there a trout, and here and there a 

 grayling," but " here and there a trout and here and 

 there a rhinoceros or an elephant or a buffalo," and 

 the sportsman will be able to combine a fishing ex- 



