GREAT HERDS OF WILD GAME 
tHp, lost all his ivory and guns by confiscation, but 
was ready to make another try. The ivory game is 
a rich one and there are always venturesome men 
who are willing to take chances with the law in 
getting the prizes. 
The Boyce party with its two balloons and its 
great number of box kites and its moving picture 
equipment and its twenty-nine cameras and its vast 
equipment was slow in starting, but it expected to 
get away on September twenty-fourth, the day 
after we left. They planned to fill their balloon in 
Nairobi and tow it at the end of a special train as 
far as Kijabe, where they were to strike inland from 
the railway. They were encamped on a hill over¬ 
looking the city, with their two hundred and thirty 
porters ready for the field and their balloon ready 
to make the first ascension ever attempted in East 
Africa. 
Throngs of natives squatted about, watching the 
final preparations, and doubtless wondered what 
the strange, swaying object was. On the evening 
of the twenty-second the party gave a moving pic¬ 
ture show at one of the clubs for the benefit of St. 
Andrew’s church. A great crowd of fashionably 
dressed people turned out and saw the motion pic¬ 
ture records of events which they had seen in life 
only a couple of days before. There were moving 
pictures of the arrival of the governor’s special 
train, his march through the city, and many other 
events that were fresh in the minds of the audience. 
There were also motion pictures taken on the ship 
