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spell of rainy weather about October and Novem- 

 ber which, however, is not looked upon as an ob- 

 stacle to a safari., and we may say that from May to 

 February constitutes the shooting season." 



The foregoing is quoted from a pamphlet on 

 East Africa game shooting. In our own experi- 

 ence the weather between September and Febru- 

 ary was perfectly delightful and I judge, from 

 reading accounts of Colonel Roosevelt's trip, that 

 his operations between April and December were 

 never seriously hampered by bad weather. From 

 the experiences of these two safaris, one might rea- 

 sonably conclude that any time is good except Feb- 

 ruary, March and April, the season of the "big 

 rains." 



HEAT 



On the Athi Plains in September, we found the 

 heat in the middle of the day to be very ardent, to 

 say the least. But with the exception of fewer than 

 a dozen days in all, we never were obliged to con- 

 sider this phase of the hunting experience as an ob- 

 jectionable feature. We found the cold of the high 

 altitudes to be severe in the evenings and in contrast 

 to it, the warm days were most welcome. Along the 

 coast, of course, the heat is intense, but all of the 

 shooting is done at altitudes exceeding thirty-five 

 hundred feet and one merely pauses at the coast 

 town long enough to catch his train. In September 

 even Mombasa was delightful, but in January it 

 was very hot. 



In conclusion, I might say that all one needs for 



