CHAP. XXX 



BACK TO NAIROBI 



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side, so that if we could get across we should be 

 able to march much more rapidly. I therefore 

 gave him directions to lead us by the most direct 

 route to this bridge. 



Mukera, however, must have been rather vague 

 as to its position, for, according to his story, we 



"TO STARTLE OUT OF THE LONG GRASS A REEDBUCK." 



were always just coming to it, but we never seemed 

 to get any closer, either to the Tana or to the 

 bridge, all the time he was with us. 



From Komongera we pushed on through a 

 deserted and somewhat hilly country with fine trees 

 dotted here and there over the landscape, Our path 



