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ELEPHANT HUNTING ON MOUNT IvENIA 
West side of Kenia’s peak, taken at an altitude of 15,000 feet 
From a photograph by J. A Ideu Loring 
The second day after reaching Neri the clouds lifted 
and we dried our damp clothes and blankets. Through 
the bright sunlight we saw in front of us the high rock 
peaks of Kenia, and shining among them the fields of ever¬ 
lasting snow which feed her glaciers; for beautiful, lofty 
Kenia is one of the glacier-bearing mountains of the equator. 
Here Kermit and Tarlton went northward on a safari of 
their own, while Cuninghame, Heller, and I headed for 
Kenia itself. For two days we travelled through a well 
peopled country. The fields of corn—always called mealies 
in Africa—of beans, and sweet potatoes, with occasional 
plantations of bananas, touched one another in almost un¬ 
interrupted succession. In most of them we saw the Kikuyu 
women at work with their native hoes; for among the 
Kikuyus, as among other savages, the woman is the drudge 
and beast of burden. Our trail led by clear, rushing 
