WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



At first, all I saw in the way of game was an 

 occasional small buck, and I began to doubt the 

 accounts I had heard concerning the " Natural Zoo." 

 Then suddenly I spied a troop of ten giraffe, so close 

 to the permanent way that I could have hit them with 

 a catapult, or at any rate with a revolver. They looked 

 round at us, certainly, but they did not run or show 

 the least fear. I have often seen cattle and horses in 

 England far more frightened than was the game along 

 that line. Evidently they had become quite accustomed 

 to the trains. 



I was, perhaps, more excited than those giraffe 

 were, but as the hours went by I grew accustomed to 

 it, although I had never expected to see one-tenth 

 the number of game. Literally, it was " Nature's 

 Zoo." All the time the numbers seemed to increase, 

 until you began to wonder how it was possible for so 

 many to find pasturage. Zebra, wildebeeste, kongoni, 

 Thompson gazelle, " Grants," eland, ostrich, a lion 

 and a rhino — we saw all these actually from our 

 railway carriage. During the last forty miles, 

 whilst we were crossing the great Kapiti and Athi 

 Plains, it was impossible for anyone possessed of 

 ordinary eyesight to look out and not see game of 

 some sort or other. 



In Nairobi we put up at the " Norfolk," an hotel 

 where you can get practically every modem con- 

 venience, no small consideration at the end of a 



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