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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME 



CHAPTEE III 



STAY IN T A VET A AND TRIPS TO MOUNTS KILIMANJARO AND MERU 



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Taveta an El Dorado — Meeting with an English hunting part}- — Hut-building 

 and life in camp — Our ape Hamis — The Wataveta — Qualla Idris — The 

 wild animals of the forest — Two caravans return to the coast — We start 

 for Mount Meru — Rhinoceros hunt — Three days on Kilimanjaro — Along 

 the base of Kilimanjaro to Mount Meru — -Further hunting adventures — 

 Meeting with Masai — By the Engilata — Weather conditions and state of 

 the road in the rainy season — Buffalo hunt — First acquaintance with the 

 Wameru — We make peace — Life among the Wameru — Lake Balbal — 

 Sultan Matunda — On the Dariama — Across the Ronga to Little Arusha — 

 Kahe — Back again at Taveta — Overhauling of our stores — A hunting 

 expedition — Start for the ascent of Kilimanjaro — A night with the thermo- 

 meter at - 11° Centigrade — Attempt to ascend Kibo — Return to Taveta — 

 The start for Masailand . . . . . . .94 



CHAPTEE IV 



THROUGH MASAILAND TO THE BORDERS OF KIKUYULAND 



We leave Taveta — Along the eastern base of Kilimanjaro — The crater lake of 

 Jala — A fugitive caught and punished — Hunting adventure — Kimangelia 

 — Count Teleki goes on in advance — His adventures — Malago Kanga — 

 Amongst the Masai — Lake Nyiri — Buffalo hunting — Cattle disease in 

 Masailand — The steppe on the north of Kilimanjaro — Some account of the 

 Masai — At the foot of the Doenye Erok la Matumbato — Hunting episode — ■ 

 On the Ngare Kidongoi — The Wandorobbo — Trading in ivory — The water- 

 holes of Seki — Tricks of the Masai — Another buffalo hunt — On the Besil 

 brook — To Turuka — Adventure with elephants — A lion hunt — A dreary 

 time — Over the Doenye Erok la Kapotei — The poisonous Morio tree — 

 Arrival at Ngongo Bagas ....... 206 



CHAPTEE V 



TO KENIA 



The reputation of the Wakiku}-u — Making our palisade — Antics of the Masai — 

 We opjen relations with the Wakikuyu — Making brotherhood — We cross 

 the frontier — Shauri to welcome us — Kutire ~kimanclaja — An uncomfort- 

 able camp — Our mode of travelling — A shauri about rain-making — Orioi 

 muma — Difficulties of marching in Kikuyuland — Our first fight — We make 

 peace — A day of rest — Renewed hostilities — A fight amongst the Wakikuyu 

 themselves — False rumours — A dangerous brook -crossing — A second fight 

 — March across Kikuyuland — First sight of Kenia — Want of union amongst 

 the Wakikuyu — Our third fight — Abedi's tragic death — On the northern 

 frontier — Our journey in Kikuyuland over at last — March to Ndoro — 

 General account of the Wakikuyu and their land .... 28G 



