294 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
the wounded elephant, succeeded in finishing him 
off without further trouble. 
Towards the end of 1899 I left for England. A 
few days before I started all my Wa Kikuyu 
“children”, as they called themselves, came Fe 
a body and begged to be taken with me. [| 
pictured to them the cold, wet climate of England 
** SUCCEEDED IN FINISHING HIM OFF WITHOUT FURTIIER 
TROUBLE.” 
and its great distance from their native land; but 
they assured me that these were nothing to them, 
as they only wished to continue my “ children” and 
to go wherever I went. I could hardly imagine 
myself arriving in London with a body-guard of 
four hundred more or less naked savages, but it was 
only with difficulty that I persuaded them that they 
had better remain in their own country. The ever- 
faithful Mahina, my ‘“‘boy” Roshan Khan, my 
