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hip, lost all his ivory and guns by confiscation, but 

 was ready to make another try. The ivory game is 

 a rich one and there are always venturesome men 

 who are willing to take chances with the law in 

 getting the prizes. 



The Boyce party with its two balloons and its 

 great number of box kites and its moving picture 

 equipment and its twenty-nine cameras and its vast 

 equipment was slow in starting, but it expected to 

 get away on September twenty-fourth, the day 

 after we left. They planned to fill their balloon in 

 Nairobi and tow it at the end of a special train as 

 far as Kijabe, where they were to strike inland from 

 the railway. They were encamped on a hill over- 

 looking the city, with their two hundred and thirty 

 porters ready for the field and their balloon ready 

 to make the first ascension ever attempted in East 

 Africa. 



Throngs of natives squatted about, watching the 

 final preparations, and doubtless wondered what 

 the strange, swaying object was. On the evening 

 of the twenty-second the party gave a moving pic- 

 ture show at one of the clubs for the benefit of St. 

 Andrew's church. A great crowd of fashionably 

 dressed people turned out and saw the motion pic- 

 ture records of events which they had seen in life 

 only a couple of days before. There were moving 

 pictures of the arrival of the governor's special 

 train, his march through the city, and many other 

 events that were fresh in the minds of the audience. 

 There were also motion pictures taken on the ship 



