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spell of rainy weather about October and Novem¬ 
ber which, however, is not looked upon as an ob¬ 
stacle to a safari, and we may say that from May to 
February constitutes the shooting season.” 
The foregoing is quoted from a pamphlet on 
East Africa game shooting. In our own experi¬ 
ence the weather between September and Febru¬ 
ary was perfectly delightful and I judge, from 
reading accounts of Colonel Roosevelt’s trip, that 
his operations between April and December were 
never seriously hampered by bad weather. From 
the experiences of these two safaris, one might rea¬ 
sonably conclude that any time is good except Feb¬ 
ruary, March and April, the season of the “big 
rains.” 
Heat 
On the Athi Plains in September, we found the 
heat in the middle of the day to be very ardent, to 
say the least. But with the exception of fewer than 
a dozen days in all, we never were obliged to con¬ 
sider this phase of the hunting experience as an ob¬ 
jectionable feature. We found the cold of the high 
altitudes to be severe in the evenings and in contrast 
to it, the warm days were most welcome. Along the 
coast, of course, the heat is intense, but all of the 
shooting is done at altitudes exceeding thirty-five 
hundred feet and one merely pauses at the coast 
town long enough to catch his train. In September 
even Mombasa was delightful, but in January it 
was very hot. 
In conclusion, I might say that all one needs fo^ 
