■^ A Dying Race of Giants 



of years the Masai, for the sake of their cattle herds, con- 

 tested with them the rights of this drinking-place. Then 

 the white man came and the Masai vanished, and again the 

 elephants found their way to the Kilepo valley. Later, 

 white settlers came — Boers, ruthless in their attitude towards 

 wild life — and took up their abode in the Kilimanjaro region, 

 The day cannot now be far distant when the last of the 

 elephants will have gone from the heart of Kilepo Hill. 

 But these two, long since killed, no doubt, will continue to 

 live on in my pictures for many a year to come. 



THE YOUNG LION THAT I MANAGED TO CAPTURE AND 

 BRING ALIVE INTO CAMP. 



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