64 
IN AFRICA 
up a couple of hundred feet and was held there for 
a moment. The wind once more sprang up and the 
balloon was drawn down amid the cheers of the 
crowd. She had been the first woman to make an 
ascension in British East Africa, if not in all of 
Africa. 
We then mounted our mules and rode out on the 
open plains. Several hours before, our entire camp 
had moved and we were to join them at a prear¬ 
ranged spot out on the Athi Plains. All our pre¬ 
liminary worries were over and at last we were 
actually started. At six o’clock, far across the 
country we saw the gleaming lights of our camp¬ 
fires and the green tents that were to he our homes 
for many weeks to come. Enormous herds of harte- 
beest and wildebeest were on each side, and count¬ 
less zebras. That night two of us heard the first 
bark of the zebra, and we thought it must be the 
bark of distant dogs. It was one of our first sur¬ 
prises to learn that zebras bark instead of neigh. 
