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CHAPTER THE LAST 



WITH our return from Juja to Nairobi for a 

 breathing space, this volume comes to a logical 

 conclusion. In it I have tried to give a fairly com- 

 prehensive impression — it could hardly be a pic- 

 ture of so large a subject — of a portion of East 

 Equatorial Africa, its animals, and its people. 

 Those who are sufficiently interested will have an 

 opportunity in a succeeding volume of wandering 

 with us even farther afield. The low jungly coast 

 region; the fierce desert of the Serengetti; the swift 

 sullen rhinoceros-haunted stretches of the Tsavo; 

 Nairobi, the strangest mixture of the twentieth cen- 

 turies A. D. and B. C; Mombasa with its wild, bar- 

 baric passionate ebb and flow of life, of colour, of 

 throbbing sound, the great lions of the Kapiti Plains, 

 the Thirst of the Loieta, the Masai spearmen, the long 

 chase for the greater kudu; the wonderful, high un- 

 known country beyond the Narossara and other af- 

 fairs will there be detailed. If the reader of this 

 volume happens to want more, there he will find it. 



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