CHAPTER XXX 



BACK TO NAIROBI 



FOLLOWING our new guide through forest and 

 glade we were soon beyond the southern border 

 of the Meru country, and continuing our march, 

 found ourselves in an uninhabited and park-like 

 tract of country, where, as evening closed in, we 

 camped at a place which our guide called Komon- 

 gera. We began again to see game here, and it 

 was a pleasure to startle out of the long grass a 

 reedbuck, or perhaps a steinbuck, and watch them 

 bound away to safety. Now and again, in a stony 

 part, we might perhaps surprise a shy little klip- 

 springer. 



At Komongera our guide informed us that the 

 Tana was not far away, and that he could lead us 

 to a native bridge which spanned it. I knew 

 there were scores of rivers and streamlets running 

 into the Tana from Mount Kenya, while there 

 would be practically none flowing into it on the other 



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