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down trees, smoothing rough spots in the road, and 

 blazing trails through the jungles; but with those 

 mentioned by name we had closer personal contact. 



As a farewell to Nairobi we gave a picture show at 

 the Royal Theatre. It was a great sight, peeping 

 out from a point of vantage near the screen, to see 

 in the native section of the theatre some of my old 

 hands sitting motionless except when they gave 

 way to chuckles of pleasure as they saw themselves 

 pictured on a safari during our first African 

 expedition. 



The next morning we packed a few extras in our 

 passenger cars. Among these were twenty pounds 

 of butter in salt, four dozen eggs in sawdust, a boiled 

 ham, twelve loaves of bread, and safari biscuit for use 

 when the bread gave out. Also there were cameras, 

 tripods, tarpaulins and tents, and such things as we 

 needed on the ride up to Isiolo, where now our main 

 caravan was encamped. Then we set out, coasted 

 over a splendid modern road kept in shape by native 

 labor, through plains with only an occasional head of 

 game, and put up that night at Thika, at the Blue 

 Posts Hotel. This hostelry consisted of sixteen 

 straw -thatched sugar-loaf huts, each hut being a 

 numbered room. We fell asleep quite happily to the 

 music of two waterfalls a few yards from our hut. 



