LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Heads of eight Lions shot by the Author in British East 



Africa Frontispiece 



Mombasa, from the Harbour I 



The Native Quarter, Mombasa 2 



" Well-wooded hills and slopes of the mainland " 3 



Yasco da Gama Street and Pillar 5 



"The best way to get there . . . was \^ gharri" 6 



" I pitched my tent under some shady palms " 7 



" Jesus Fort " 8 



" Kilindini is .... on the opposite side of the island" .... 10 



" The Place of Deep Waters " . it 



" A lucky shot brought down the huge bird " 14 



" I slept that night in a little palm hut " 15 



" This interminable nyika''' 17 



" The river crossed by means of a temporary bridge " .... 18 



Women of Uganda 19 



The Tent from which jemadar Ungan Singh was carried off . . 23 



" My own tent was pitched in an open clearing " 29 



" We shared a hut of palm leaves and boughs " 30 



" The camps of the workmen had also been surrounded by 



thorn fences " 31 



" Railhead Camp, with its two or three thousand workmen" . 33 

 " The two wounded coolies were left where they lay, a piece 



of torn tent having fallen over them " 35 



"A luncheon served in the wilds, with occasionally a friend 



to share it " 43 







