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characterise the densest and most gloomy jungles, as it 
is the purpose of this chapter to explain. 
Buffalo we had not originally included in our pro¬ 
gramme, having already fair specimens from the Pung- 
wee River, but decided on devoting a week or two to 
the Mau forest, where Lord Hindlip had kindly promised 
to lay us on. 
On March 5 we encamped at Kishobo, another 
“ World’s View,” standing at 7,000 ft., and overlooking 
spacious panorama of tropical woodland, waste and wild. 
In the foreground, apparently close by, though twelve 
miles away, glisten the waters of beautiful Lake Nakuru, 
nestling beneath the sombre crater of Meningai; while, 
far beyond, to the north and east, the great cordilleras 
of Laikipia and Kamasea pierce the heavens. South and 
west all is forest, forest, forest. 
Readers of A Lodge in the Wilderness will recall 
Musuru, situate in fancy on this same Mau highland. 
There world-politics in their broader plane were eluci¬ 
dated ; here we viewed a more practical stage—the first 
stage—the rough-hewing, the tearing by violence from 
savage nature of that dominion allotted to man—to 
