EARLY MAN IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 27 
It is unfortunate that the evidence is as yet so scanty, but 
this sketch may perhaps induce residents to look out for, 
and collect relics of, the handicraft of early man. It is hoped 
that some of the many caves in the country will be systema- 
tically explored. In the event of a discovery, great care should 
be taken to collect the bones of any mammals found in caves 
in association with stone implements, as by this means we may 
be able to reconstruct the early history of man in this part 
of the African Continent and correlate his progress with that 
of his congeners living at that time in the Northern Hemi- 
sphere and in South Africa, to the record of which such 
careful study has been devoted by many brilliant students in 
Europe. 
A great deal of valuable information on the South African Stone Age will 
be found in a paper by Dr. Peringuey, Director, South African Museum, in 
Vol. VIII. of the Annals of the South African Museum, published 1911. 
Description op Plate 
The stone implements figured in the plate (two-thirds of 
the actual size) were found by me on the surface of the Lower 
Miocene deposits which are exposed in the terraced gullies of 
Nira and Kachuku, about five miles south-east of Karungu, 
on the east coast of the Victoria Nyanza. They are arranged 
on the plate in the same relative position, the apex pointing 
downward in each case ; the photograph shows the flaked 
side of the implements, the reverse displaying the bulb of 
percussion. In Nos. 5, 9 and 10 the tip is broken off, but 
the fracture is very old, for the brown patina extends equally 
across it. 
The greater number, viz. Nos. 1 to 9 and 12, consist of a 
black flint with brown patina, Nos. 10 and 11 are of sandstone, 
No 18 is of quartzite with veins of quartz, No. 14 is of quartz- 
porphyry, and No. 15 is of quartzite with crimson stains of 
hematite. The flint-implements must have been brought 
from a considerable distance, perhaps from the southward, 
for I did not find any similar rock or pebbles during my 
march eastwards to Kisii and thence to Homa Bay and 
Kendu. 
