CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VII 



SECOND EXPEDITION 



Change in rifle equipment — Reach Samburu — A waterless district — Watering donkeys 

 — Flocks of guinea-fowl — Ukambani — Among the Wakamba tribe — Mishap to 

 Frolic — An impassable river — Traces of elephants — Death of Frolic — A dis- 

 appointing day — Construct a canoe — Difficult navigation — Crossing the pack- 

 animals--A serviceable call — A disagreeable route — Interior of a crater — Nearing 

 the Lorogi Mountains — My old camp at El Bogoi . . . Pages 1 38- 166 



CHAPTER VHI 



EXCURSIONS FROM EL 15000I 



Comfortable quarters — Among old Ndorobn friends — A favourite elephant haunt — 

 Bag a giraffe — Lost in the bush — A deceitful guide — A grateful recompense — 

 Native jealousy — Travelling elephants — A pair of lovers — Camp by the Seya 

 River — The Mathews range — Kill five elephants — A malarious climate — Up the 

 Barasaloi River — A marvellous sight — Abundance of elephants — An exciting 

 hunt — A narrow escape — A good day's work ..... 167-191 



CHAPTER IX 



EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOOOI {co/l/i/ntCif) 



well-earned rest — An Ndorobo harvest — Keen faculty of natives — A cool retreat 

 — A large rhino-^Fourteen elephants in a day's hunt — Distinctive character of 

 tusks — Trek with ivory to El Bogoi — Resemblance to Robinson Crusoe — 

 Experience as donkey-driver — An unexpected stroke of luck — Overloaded with 

 ivory — Stalking Gazelle — A fictitious report — A handsome pair of tusks — A 

 picturesque group — Welcome at El Bogoi ...... 192-2 1 2 



CHAPTER X 



EXCURSIONS FROM EL liOCOI {coutiniied') 



native duel — An offended guide — Camp by Mreya spring — Signs of elephants — A 

 wrong action — Dearth of water — Deemed a benefactor— Lions disturbed — A 

 chance lost — .S|iot for a mission station — Replenishing the larder — Back to El 

 Bogoi — A faithful headman — A remorse of conscience — A great disappointment 

 — An Ndorobo camp — News (jf an elephant preserve — Starvation times — INIan- 

 eating lions ........... 213-233 



