GREAT HERDS OF WILD GAME 45 



miles in extent. From almost any part of the town 

 one may look out on plains where great herds of 

 wild game are constantly in sight. In an hour's 

 leisurely walk from the station a man with a gun 

 can get hartebeest, zebra, Grant's gazelle, Thomp- 

 son's gazelle, impalla, and probably wildebeest. 

 One can not possibly count the number of animals 

 that feed contentedly within sight of the town of 

 Nairobi, and it is difficult to think that one is not 

 looking out upon a collection of domesticated game. 

 Sometimes, as happened two nights before we 

 reached Nairobi, a lion will chase a herd of zebra 

 and the latter in fright will tear through the town, 

 destrojdng gardens and fences and flowers in a mad 

 stampede. We met one man who goes out ten min- 

 utes from town every other day and kills a kongoni 

 (hartebeest) as food for his dogs. If you were dis- 

 posed to do so you could kill dozens every day with 

 little effort and almost no diminution of the visible 

 supply. 



Nairobi is new and unattractive. There is one 

 long main thoroughfare, quite wide and fringed 

 w r ith trees, along which at wide intervals are the sub- 

 stantial looking stone building of the Bank of 

 India, the business houses, the hotels, and numbers 

 of cheap corrugated iron, one-story shacks used for 

 government purposes. A native barracks with low 

 iron houses and some more little iron houses used 

 for medical experiments and still some more for 

 use as native hospitals are encountered as one takes 

 the half-mile ride from the station to the hotel. A 



