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waving his spear and uttering deep-toned shouts, with 
what seemed a ludicrous disproportion of effort to the 
result needed. 
The game comes right to the outskirts of Nairobi. 
One morning Kermit walked out from the McMillans’ 
town-house, where we were staying, in company with 
Percival, the game-ranger, and got photographs of 
zebras, kongoni, and Kavirondo cranes ; and a leopard 
sometimes came up through the garden on to the 
veranda of the house itself. 
Antelopes speedily become very tame, and recognize 
clearly their friends. Leslie Tarlton’s brother was 
keeping a couple of young kongoni and a partly-grown 
Grant’s gazelle on his farm just outside Nairobi. 
Tarlton’s young antelopes went freely into the country 
round about, but never fled with the wild herds ; and 
they were not only great friends with Tarlton’s dogs, 
but recognized them as protectors. Hyenas and other 
beasts frequently came round the farm after nightfall, 
and at their approach the antelopes fled at speed to 
where the dogs were, and then could not be persuaded 
to leave them. 
We spent a delightful week at Juja Farm, and then 
moved to Kamiti Ranch, the neighbouring farm, owned 
by Mr. Hugh H. Heatley, who had asked me to visit 
him for a buffalo hunt. While in the highlands of 
British East Africa it is utterly impossible for a stranger 
to realize that he is under the Equator ; the climate is 
delightful and healthy. It is a white man’s country, a 
country which should be filled with white settlers ; and 
no place could be more attractive for visitors. There is 
no more danger to health incident to an ordinary trip to 
East Africa than there is to an ordinary trip to the 
Riviera. Of course, if one goes on a hunting trip there 
