868 RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION 



The next step may bring him full upon the fresh 

 spoor of an eland or an elephant, of a rhinoceros 

 or a roan, or indeed upon these beasts themselves. 



If any further inducement were wanting, the 

 grandeur of the scenery, unspoiled as yet (un- 

 fortunately for the economic future of this fair 

 land) by railways, motor roads, or manufactures, 

 would abundantly supply it once the coast was 

 left behind. Nothing in my experience and 

 opinion could exceed or approach the wild beauty 

 of Boror, of Lugella, of the Namuli Peaks to the 

 northward or, farther to the west, of mighty 

 Morumbala and gigantic Chiperoni. They ex- 

 hibit every variety of African landscape, every 

 splendour of Nature in her wildest and most prodi- 

 gal moods. If, having set out the foregoing, any 

 additional element calculated still further to 

 predispose the reader in favour of this wide and 

 splendid game country were wanting, it would be 

 found, I doubt not, in the kindly willingness of 

 the well-disposed, peaceable natives. There are 

 none of your boot-shod, blanket-pampered, ex- 

 orbitantly paid carriers here ; the men, whilst in 

 every sense worthy of their hire, are satisfied with 

 humane, just, and reasonable treatment, without 

 expecting to have embroidered on to it the sense- 

 less indulgences with which the wealthy plutocrats 

 who hie them to the plains of British East Africa 

 have so delighted to spoil the market for other 

 sportsmen quite as keen and possibly keener, but 

 unluckily less favoured in their share of this 

 world's indispensable goods. 



I must confess, knowing the region as I do, 



