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good horns ; and, while the Kikuyu hunters 

 employed by Judd were trying to find elephants, 

 we hunted rhinos and other game. We knew 

 each other well, and Judd was an interesting 

 and instructive companion, so that we had a 

 very pleasant time ; but three is not a good 

 umber for a shooting party. Two men can 

 oot comfortably without interfering with each 

 other, but it is difficult for a third man to shoot 

 without interfering with the sport of the others, 

 or without being interfered with in his own stalking 

 and shooting. The chances, also, which are to 

 got at elephants are few ; and much of the 

 ime which we spent at the foot of the mountains 

 as not very profitably employed. In the vicinity 

 if our first two camps elephants were fairly 

 umerous, and in the first week each of us had 

 chance of bagging an elephant. We then, 

 owever, marched and camped for ten days 

 ong the foot of the hills without getting any 

 ore chances at elephant, and the other shooting 

 was not particularly good. The country was 

 pleasant, and one of our camps was beautifully 

 situated, with a fine view of Mount Kinangop 

 in the distance ; but the rains had commenced 

 in the hill country, and our shooting was interfered 

 with to some extent by heavy showers. 



When the elephant-shooting was over at the 

 end of February my friends had not much more 

 time at their disposal, and Bird was anxious 

 to see the Victoria Nyanza before leaving the 

 country. They decided, therefore, to spend some 

 days on the Athi River. I was anxious to travel 

 to a greater distance from the railway-line than 



