4 i8 THE LAND OF THE LION 



Lieutenant-Governor Jackson is always ready to give 

 to strangers the advantage of his unique experience. Those 

 who are hoping to secure some uncommon species will 

 find in him an invaluable ally. If you immediately rush 

 away on sefari, then you must be content to take what you 

 can get in the way of headmen, tentboy, gunbearers and 

 porters. If you delay a little, and wait to gain knowledge 

 and some experience, you are sure to come in contact with 

 many who are both willing and able to aid you. The walks 

 and rides round the town will introduce you to some of the 

 most beautiful scenery in Africa. The curving ridge that 

 looks over the lovely blue plain was often my early morn- 

 ing walk. From its farthermost end I have seen soon after 

 sunrise, or just before the sunsetting, the snowy truncated 

 cone of Kilimanjaro, 175 miles away on the right; in front 

 Donya Sabuk (thirty miles) and Kenia and Kinan Kop on 

 the left, all at the same time. There can be but few views 

 in the world to compare with this. Then turning back- 

 ward and homeward along the ridge, fragrant hedges of 

 pomegranate and yellow roses thrust their boughs over in- 

 adequate fencing, as they fill the fresh morning air with 

 odour. 



Snowy mountains, wide sweeping plains, waving banana 

 and a great abundance of sweetest English flowers. This 

 is Nairobi ridge, surely the strangest, and one of the most 

 lovely unions of tropical and temperate beauty and life. 

 Stand on this southern end of the ridge, and turn your 

 glasses on the level plain before you. Here, not three miles 

 away, are the game herds of East Africa. Thousands 

 of little dots, kongoni, zebra, Tommy, Grant, and prob- 

 ably a few gnu are in sight. The popping of rifle shots at 

 the range beneath you affects them not at all. Take your 

 rifle, however, saunter out on that level veldt, and you will 

 not find them so easy of approach. 



Tempted by the game herds, lions still at times come 



