8o THE LAND OF THE LION 



sleep well, and when we reached Laikipia we were fortunate 

 indeed in securing the help of a medical missionary, who 

 probed and lanced the arm, leaving in drainage tubes, so 

 that in a week all swelling had gone. 



Nine weeks after his mauling, Momba marched off joy- 

 ously on an eighty mile tramp to greet his four expectant 

 Kikuyu wives, dropping sundry hints that as he was now 

 possessed of seventy-five rupees he might add to their 

 number! 



