124 HIPPO AND LEOPARD [ch. v 
is always a certain amount of risk, including the risk of 
fever, just as there would be if a man camped out in 
some of the Italian marshes. But the ordinary visitor 
need have no more fear of his health than if he were 
travelling in Italy, and it is hard to imagine a trip 
better worth making than the trip from Mombasa to 
Nairobi and on to the Victoria Nyanza. 
