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miles in extent. From almost any part of the town 
one may look out on plains where great herds of 
wild game are constantly in sight. In an hour’s 
leisurely walk from the station a man with a gun 
can get hartebeest, zebra, Grant’s gazelle, Thomp¬ 
son’s gazelle, impalla, and probably wildebeest. 
One can not possibly count the number of animals 
that feed contentedly within sight of the town of 
Nairobi, and it is difficult to think that one is not 
looking out upon a collection of domesticated game. 
Sometimes, as happened two nights before we 
reached Nairobi, a lion will chase a herd of zebra 
and the latter in fright will tear through the town, 
destroying gardens and fences and flowers in a mad 
stampede. We met one man who goes out ten min¬ 
utes from town every other day and kills a kongoni 
(hartebeest) as food for his dogs. If you were dis¬ 
posed to do so you could kill dozens every day with 
little effort and almost no diminution of the visible 
supply. 
Nairobi is new and unattractive. There is one 
long main thoroughfare, quite wide and fringed 
with trees, along which at wide intervals are the sub¬ 
stantial looking stone building of the Bank of 
India, the business houses, the hotels, and numbers 
of cheap corrugated iron, one-story shacks used for 
government purposes. A native barracks with low 
iron houses and some more little iron houses used 
for medical experiments and still some more for 
use as native hospitals are encountered as one takes 
the half-mile ride from the station to the hotel. A 
