PREFACE 
Ir is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that 
I place the following pages before the public; but 
those of my friends who happen to have heard of 
my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so 
often urged me to write an account of my adventures, 
that after much hesitation I at last determined to 
do so. 
I have no doubt that many of my readers, who 
have perhaps never been very far away from civilisa- 
tion, will be inclined to think that some of the 
incidents are exaggerated. I can only assure them 
that I have toned down the facts rather than other- 
wise, and have endeavoured to write a_ perfectly 
plain and straightforward account of things as they 
actually happened. 
It must be remembered that at the time these 
events occurred, the conditions prevailing in British 
East Africa were very different from what they are 
to-day. The railway, which has modernised the aspect 
