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EARLY MAN IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
breast), francolin, sand-grouse, snipe, and lesser bustard. 
Other birds are comparatively scarce. 
Throughout the trip, which extended over twenty-eight 
days, I enjoyed the companionship of Mr. Lindblom, to whom 
I am indebted for one of the photographs here reproduced. 
Attached also is a sketch map, on much reduced scale, of the 
route taken and the course of the river. 
EARLY MAN IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
By C. W. Hobley. 
One would expect to find relics of prehistoric man in Africa, 
perhaps more than anywhere on the globe, because it is the 
general opinion of geologists that the heart of the Continent 
has been continuously above the sea for a very long period, 
geologically speaking. 
This hope has not been altogether disappointed, for stone 
weapons and implements have been discovered in different 
parts of the Continent, widely apart. The two areas in which 
most finds have been made are South Africa and the Nile 
Valley. 
Artificial stone implements from Africa were probably first 
noticed in Egypt, being first accidentally found in the course 
of excavations for Egyptian antiquities, and owing to the 
extraordinary preservative qualities of the desert sand many 
bones, and other more or less perishable things, have come to 
light. In South Africa the first recorded implements were 
discovered about 1866, and since then many thousands have 
been picked up from Cape Colony to Rhodesia ; other evidences 
of culture, such as pottery, have been found, but they are rare. 
A few human remains have been found, but not to any great 
extent. Stone implements have also been recorded from 
Somaliland, Darfur, the Congo, and other places. In Europe 
and other parts of the world we owe a great deal to the wide 
occurrence of limestone deposits in preserving relics of early 
man, for two reasons. Limestone rocks easily weather into 
caves or large cavities, formed in it by the solvent action of 
