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My health, too, improved considerably now that 

 the great strain was over, so it was with a com- 

 paratively easy mind that I set out next day towards 

 Fort Hall, which is two short marches from the 

 Embu boma. Before starting we received many 

 warnings from our kind host to beware of the rhino 



"WE REACHED EMBU." 



and buffalo which infested the track. The timely 

 caution was indeed very necessary, for our adven- 

 tures were not yet over, and disaster nearly overtook 

 us just as we were almost out of the toils of the nyika. 

 It happened that our camping place was on a little 

 rise on the edge of a great papyrus swamp, and while 

 sitting on a chair overlooking it I saw plainly, with 



