CHAPTER IV 



ON THE YATTA PLATEAU 



BEFORE leaving Nairobi we had been told by 

 people with a knowledge of these parts that posho 

 could be obtained without any difficulty from the 

 Wakamba. We did not therefore take more than a 

 week's supply with us, as of course the smaller the 

 number of loads of food carried, the fewer porters 

 we required. We were now on the borders of 

 an inhabited district, so I sent some men with an 

 askari to a local chief named Ngai with money 

 enough to buy half-a-dozen loads of beans, of which 

 we were running short. I was told by a native of 

 these parts that it would take two days for the 

 porters to bring the food, so I employed the interval 

 in rambling about the country making notes and 

 sketches, while my friends did some shooting and 

 secured good specimens of impala, bushbuck, and 

 waterbuck. One day, while stalking a rhino, S. 

 came suddenly upon a buffalo as it emerged from 



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