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well. I have worked very hard & enjoyed it all enormously^: on Christmas day 
sees Oryx & shoots two; Masai Country **the promised land^, meets Sir F.J. Jackson, 
Lt. Governor; meets Van de Weye '*lookincj like a freak escaped from Barnum*s'*, 
"also J. Elkington whom I have not seen since I left Eton", etc. etc. At end of 
this journal is list of animals killed. The journal beginning Dec 20. Arrives in 
Kilindini Harbour met by McBride from B.E.A.C. dined at Club, **C. & self fit though 
glad to get off boat", train to Nairobi see game from train. Infant Ward, van de 
Weye, Bates, Delaraere, Elkington, Fitzgerald (in the Blues & just i» ©ff Safari), 
German friends, etc. uses his "new maulicher to shoot Grants, Oryx, Wildebeest, 
Zebra, francolins ("for the pot"), porter mauled by lioness, wounds dressed. "The 
wounded porter is a swell under the circumstances". This journal is equally vivid 
& full of descriptions of game seen & game killed & at end is similar list of 
animals, i.e. has "shot 39 different varieties of beasts in the 2 Trips" etc. 
Both iQurnals bound in buckram over boards, one with marbled sides, WO'VCia ^ . 
(Kermit was Theodore Roosevelt's Son). 
