MOMBASA TO KIKUYU. 



1) 



decorated by mile-posts and sign-boards, that has 

 been recently finished to Kibwezi by Mr. George 

 Wilson. 



Game is abundant everywhere, a kind of small 

 bustard and guinea-fowl being very common. 



Fig. 3.— The Taru Deseet. 



Occasionally a tiny gazelle, " paa," with large ears, 

 springs out of the thorns and vanishes down the 

 path. I saw footprints of giraffe, and came across 

 ostriches more than once. I also made a perse- 

 vering attempt to kill a Clarke's gazelle— an 



