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IN AFRICA 
In five weeks we saw lion, rhino, buffalo, and ele¬ 
phant—the four groups of animals that are called 
“royal game”; also hippo, giraffe, eland, wildebeest, 
and many varieties of smaller game. It is doubtful 
whether there is any other section of East Africa 
where one could have a chance for so many differ¬ 
ent species of game in such a short time as the Tana 
River country. 
For our second expedition we selected the Guas 
Ngishu Plateau, the Nzoia River, and Mount El¬ 
gon. It is a long trip which involves elaborate prep¬ 
aration and some difficulty in keeping up supplies 
for the camp and the porters. It is the most prom¬ 
ising place, however, for black-maned lion and ele¬ 
phant, and on account of these two capital prizes 
in the lottery of big game hunting occasional par¬ 
ties are willing to venture the time and expense 
necessary to reach this district. 
We disembarked, or “detrained,” as they say 
down there, at a little station on the railroad called 
Londiani, eight miles south of the equator and 
about eighty miles from Victoria Nyanza. Then 
with two transport wagons drawn by thirty oxen, 
our horses for “galloping” lions, and one hundred 
porters, we marched north, always at an altitude of 
from seventy-five hundred to ninety-two hundred 
feet, through vast forests that stretched for miles 
on all sides. The country was beautiful beyond 
words—clean, wholesome, and vast. In many places 
the scenery was as trim and apparently as finished 
as sections of the wooded hills and meadows of 
