290 SAFARI 



sctJptor, inventor of the famous Akeley camera, a 

 splendid photographer, and the father of a new 

 system of taxidermy that is now being used through- 

 out the world. 



At Nairobi we set out to find ourselves a house that 

 could be our home in the futiire. We had definitely 

 decided to make Africa our permanent residence 

 henceforth, and visit America only as occasion 

 demanded. It was primarily through the generosity 

 of Mr. Daniel Pomeroy of New York that this dream 

 of ours could come true. As our object from now on 

 through the rest of our lives is to make a true pictorial 

 history of the different kinds of African wild animals, 

 and since Nairobi is the logical center to work from, 

 we felt that we have chosen the proper location for 

 our home. 



For the first time in our married life Osa and I 

 now have a home that is really our own. Up to this 

 time Lake Paradise had been owe refuge and it had 

 given us many happy years. But of it Osa used to 

 say, laughingly, that when I married her I promised 

 her a palace, and the nearest she ever got to it was a 

 mudhouse. 



We have four acres of groimd, a fine orchard of 

 fruit trees, pears, apples, peaches, plums, all growing 

 beside oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, and other 

 kinds of tropical and sub -tropical fruits. One of the 

 first things Osa did was to plant a fine strawberry bed. 



