WILD MAN AND WILD BEAST IN AFRICA 



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Photo by Kermit Roosevelt. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons 

 OUR TWO MASAI GUIDES IN FROM THE SOTIK TO NAVAISHA 



trees and huge euphobias. Elsewhere 

 they were mere seas of withered grass. 

 Out of these barren plains rise great 

 mountains, right under the equator, with 

 snow-peaks. 



I was camped under Mount Kenia, 



directly on the equator, a little over 

 a year ago, when I received news that 

 the Pole had been discovered by an 

 American. My judgment about the first 

 American who asserted that he had dis- 

 covered the Pole I am happy to say coin- 



