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ALONG THE GUASO NAROK 



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got to a bad spot, to see that the porters carried 

 him gently and carefully over the rough road. The 

 country we passed through along the Guaso Narok 

 was for the most part 

 a good grass one and 

 game was plentiful. 

 Luckily for us the water 

 was clear and sweet, a 

 great rarity in the 

 wilds, where it is usu- 

 ally muddy, warm, and 

 brackish. 



Numbers of baboons 

 were to be seen on the 

 rocks close to the river. 

 While I was out ex- 

 ploring one afternoon I 

 came upon a large 

 family of these human- 

 like creatures, perched 

 on a huge rock, which 

 jutted up from the op- 

 posite bank of the river. 



THE GERENUK. 

 [Mounted in Rowland Ward's Studios.] 



I selected a position 



under the shade of a 



spreading tree, which grew at the water's edge, 



and watched them for over an hour, my glasses 



enabling me to see every wrinkle in their ugly 



