CAMPING AT MOUNT KEN I A 



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I have perhaps described with tiresome minuteness every 

 detail of this day's hunting ; but it was one of such exceptional 

 opportunities that it seems worth while to give full particulars 

 of all its incidents. I may add that, some time after, some 

 natives found the large elephant which I had wounded, dead, 

 and I eventual!}- recovered the tusks (though not, unfortunately, 



Nativl Girls and Wumen of Tribes near the foot of Mou;-,i Kl^ia. 



(From a Photograph by Dr. KoLii.) 



without rather serious trouble with them), which weighed 

 between 80 and 90 lbs. apiece. 



Next day I moved my camp to near the patch of forest 

 where I had been so lucky, for the convenience of getting out 

 the ivory (which my boys took two days to do), and afterwards 

 to a stream close to the extreme base of Mount Kenia, in order 

 to hunt in the extensive forest on its lower slopes. I was 

 fortunate enough to shoot a giraffe at the stream, just at the 

 place where I wanted to camp — one of the three which I found 

 there on arriving ahead of my men, and stalked successfully 



