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feeding beyond what they can pick up for them- 

 selves on the way. If they survive the hardships 

 and dangers of the journey they can also be sold 

 at a fair price at the end of the expedition, pro- 

 vided no fly country has been traversed. Where 

 expense is no object, and food supplies can be 

 relied on, the ordinary porter is much more satis- 

 factory. Camels, of course, would be preferable 

 to either, and I found them invaluable when I 

 reached the Rendile country in the course of my 

 journey. They are, however, confined to certain 

 districts, and are not available for the ordinary sports- 

 man who sets out from Nairobi. 



It is somewhat surprising that up to the present 

 moment no serious effort has been made to domesti- 

 cate the zebra, and thus cope with this difficulty of 

 transport. Here we have a country where through- 

 out the greater part, camels, horses, mules, and 

 donkeys are unable to live owing to the deadly 

 tsetse-fly. Means of transport must be found 

 somehow, as there are neither railways, roads, nor 

 navigable rivers to speak of; therefore the settler, 

 the sportsman, and the traveller have to fall back 

 upon the caravan porter, who from time immemorial 

 has been the pack animal of East African wilds. 

 Now that the country is attracting white men as 

 farmers and ranchers, the question of labour is be- 

 coming acute, and instead of wandering about with 



