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men and are not at all likely to be hostile or trouble- 

 some. Our safari at one time went into a district 

 where we were warned to expect trouble, but there 

 was none and I think there never need be any if the 

 white men are considerate and fair. If a district is 

 known to be particularly troublesome, the govern- 

 ment authorities would not permit a hunting party 

 to go into it, so for that reason the hunters need ap- 

 prehend no dangers from that source. 



GAME 



Game is found in varying degrees of abundance 

 in most parts of the East African highlands. With- 

 in two hours of Nairobi the sportsman may find 

 twelve or fifteen species, while within the space of 

 four weeks a lucky hunter might secure elephant, 

 lion, rhinoceros, buffalo, eland and hippopotamus. 

 It is hardly likely that he would, but it is quite with- 

 in the range of possibilities. It all depends upon 

 luck. The hunter is allowed under his two hundred 

 and fifty dollar license, about one hundred and 

 ninety-five animals, comprising thirty-five species, 

 and not including lion, leopard, wart-hog and 

 hyena. There is no restriction on the number of 

 these last-named species that one is allowed to shoot, 

 but there is on the number that he gets the oppor- 

 tunity of shooting. 



The success of an expedition should not be meas- 

 ured by the number of trophies, but rather by the 

 quality of them. For example, the new license al- 

 lows twenty zebras, but no one would want to kill 



