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Swift, " I think we may fairly claim to have 

 sifted this case to the bottom " ; and the 

 punishment was duly inflicted. The turn of the 

 other man then came, and he tried to put the 

 whole of the blame on his more voluble companion ; 

 but it was clear that he also was guilty, and 

 accordingly received a dozen. 



These two cases had an excellent effect, and 

 during the four months that I was on tour I had 

 no more trouble with my porters. Abdu had 

 fights with two of Gimlette's men, but in one 

 of these cases Abdu was to blame, as he tried to 

 make the man surrender some lion's fat to which 

 he was properly entitled. Gimlette's porters had 

 been selected by another headman ; and in the 

 circumstances it was surprising that there was 

 not more friction and trouble between them 

 and Abdu. 



From Messrs. Swift and Rutherfoord's farm 

 we marched to Fort Hall, and from Fort Hall to 

 Nyeri in the west of Kenia Mountain. We 

 spent Christmas Day at Nyeri, and the District 

 Officer and his wife kindly invited us to a 

 Christmas dinner, which they were giving to all 

 the residents of the Station and the vicinity. 

 The head of one of the guests was in bandages, 

 the result of an extraordinary encounter which 

 he and his chum had had with a leopard some 

 days before. They had begun farming, and had 

 constructed a house on the farm not far from 

 Nyeri. While they were in the house a leopard 

 chased their dog into the room in which they 

 were, and managed, as he entered, to slam the 

 door, so that he was a prisoner in the room. 



