CONTENTS 



CHAPTER ONE PAGE 



The Preparation for Departure. Experiences with Willing 

 Friends and Advisers 1 



CHAPTER TWO 



The First Half of the Voyage. From Naples to the Red Sea, 

 with a Few Side-Lights on Indian Ocean Travel ... 13 



CHAPTER THREE 



The Island of Mombasa, with the Jungles of Equatorial Africa 

 "Only a Few Blocks Away." A Story of the World's Cham- 

 pion Man-Eating Lions 28 



CHAPTER FOUR 



On the Edge of the Athi Pkins, Face to Face with Herds of 

 Wild Game. Up in a Balloon at Nairobi .... 43 



CHAPTER FIVE 



Into the Heart of the Big Game Country with a Retinue of 

 More Than One Hundred Natives. A Safari and What It Is 65 



CHAPTER SIX 



A Lion Drive. With a Rhino in Range Some One Shouts 

 "Simba" and I Get My First Glimpse of a Wild Lion. Three 

 Shots and Out . 82 



CHAPTER SEVEN 



On the Tana River, the Home of the Rhino. The Timid are 

 Frightened, the Dangerous Killed, and Others Photographed. 

 Moving Pictures of a Rhino Charge ..... 105 



CHAPTER EIGHT 



Meeting Colonel Roosevelt in the Uttermost Outpost of Semi- 

 Civilization. He Talks of Many Things, Hears that he has Been 

 Reported Dead, and Promptly Plans an Elephant Hunt . 133 



CHAPTER NINE 



The Colonel Reads Macaulay's " Essays," Discourses on Many 

 Subjects with Great Frankness, Declines a Drink of Scotch 

 Whisky, and Kills Three Elephants 141 



