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" Festooned with the graceful hanging nests of the weaver bird " 88 



" A very fine Jackson's hartebeeste " 113 



" Over he tumbled after going some dozen paces " . . .114 



' The falls on the Athi river " 117 



" Dropping it dead within a dozen yards of him " . . .118 

 " The safari donkeys complained bitterly ... at their unusually 



heavy loads" 119 



" A couple of most playful lion cubs " 1 20 



" And construct rude bridges over streams " . . . . 1 26 



" Rope to assist in crossing rivers " 127 



"A smiling M'kikuyu chief" 132 



" Wambugu ... the local chief . . . readily consented to pose 



for a photograph " 136 



" In the full panoply of their Kikuyu ceremonial dress" . . 137 



" We were not sorry to leave Nyeri " 141 



" The beautiful waters of Lake El Bolosat " .... 142 



A Masai many at ta . . . . . . . . 153 



" The Masai chief Masekondi " 154 



Masekondi's wives and children 160 



"His great stature is apparent" 161 



"To see that the porters carried him gently " .... 173 



The Junction 174 



The gerenuk 175 



Hut in a Masai manyatta .178 



" In appearance the Masai are slender " 180 



"The Masai have a habit of distorting their ears" . . .181 



The period of boyhood 183 



" Exercises calculated to make the limbs supple " . . .187 



" No wonder that they inspired terror " 191 



"Carryall . . . which cannot be heaped on to the donkeys" . 194 



" Her distorted and scarred head " 195 



" Bowled over a very fine oryx " 204 



"Adding this much-prized trophy to her bag" 213 



" Bowled over her first impala " . . . . . . .214 



"Breakfast under a shady tree" 215 



" Karogi and another Samburu " 216 



" Under the shade of the fine trees " .221 



" We very soon had an opening made" 224 



