CONTENTS 
CHAPTER ONE 
The Preparation for Departure. Experiences with Willing 
Friends and Advisers .. 
CHAPTER TWO 
The First Half of the Voyage. From Naples to the Red Sea, 
with a Few Side-Lights on Indian Ocean Travel 
CHAPTER THREE 
The Island of Mombasa, with the Jungles of Equatorial Africa 
"Only a Few Blocks Away.” A Story of the World’s Cham¬ 
pion Man-Eating Lions. 
CHAPTER FOUR 
On the Edge of the Athi Plains, Face to Face with Herds of 
Wild Game. Up in a Balloon at Nairobi .... 
CHAPTER FIVE 
Into the Heart of the Big Game Country with a Retinue of 
More Than One Hundred Natives. A Safari and What It Is 
CHAPTER SIX 
A Lion Drive. With a Rhino in Range Some One Shouts 
"Simba” and I Get My First Glimpse of a Wild Lion. Three 
Shots and Out . 
CHAPTER SEVEN 
On the Tana River, the Home of the Rhino. The Timid are 
Frightened, the Dangerous Killed, and Others Photographed. 
Moving Pictures of a Rhino Charge. 
CHAPTER EIGHT 
Meeting Colonel Roosevelt in the Uttermost Outpost of Semi- 
Civilization. He Talks of Many Things, Hears that he has Been 
Reported Dead, and Promptly Plans an Elephant Hunt 
CHAPTER NINE 
The Colonel Reads Macaulay’s "Essays,” Discourses on Many 
Subjects with Great Frankness, Declines a Drink of Scotch 
Whisky, and Kills Three Elephants. 
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