PREFACE 



IT is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that 

 I place the following pages before the public ; but 

 those of my friends who happen to have heard of 

 my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so 

 often urged me to write an account of my adventures, 

 that after much hesitation I at last determined to 

 do so. 



I have no doubt that many of my readers, who 

 have perhaps never been very far away from civilisa- 

 tion, will be inclined to think that some of the 

 incidents are exaggerated. I can only assure them 

 that I have toned down the facts rather than other- 

 wise, and have endeavoured to write a perfectly 

 plain and straightforward account of things as they 

 actually happened. 



It must be remembered that at the time these 

 events occurred, the conditions prevailing in British 

 East Africa were very different from what they are 

 to-day. The railway, which has modernised the aspect 



