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to our rooms. I found her sobbing her heart out on 

 the bed. I walked up and down the room unable to 

 believe it was true that we had lost our little 

 companion. 



Meanwhile Percival had telephoned the electric 

 light company to have the power turned off. A boy 

 climbed the telegraph pole and got the little dead 

 body down. I went out and wrapped what was left 

 of Kalowatt in a blanket and brought her into our 

 room and placed her in the little cage that we had 

 always carried her in. This cage was very smaU. I 

 had spent a lot of money getting a bigger cage made, 

 but Kalowatt never liked anything except this little 

 one. 



There followed a night of grief for Osa and me. 

 Near midnight we couldn't stand it any longer. We 

 went out and got one of our motor cars and drove 

 way out on the Athi plains, got out and walked up 

 and down until daylight. At dawn we went back to 

 the hotel, took Kalowatt's cleanest blankets which 

 had just been washed, and wrapped her up in them. 

 Then I went out and bought a tin rubber-lined 

 officer's dress case. We put the body in this and 

 placed it on the back seat of our motor. It was a 

 peculiar fact that the African boys who had been 

 with me did not show up that morning. Despite 

 the fact that the blacks are supposed to be almost 

 without feeling, they didn't want to come up and see 



