P^E TWO 
reaches Kizii, settler named Clutterbuck at Molo, sun very trying, vivid 
descriptions on way. Nov 10 "Great day! Left Camp at 7 a.m. & by 8 a.m. we 
had killed a big Bull Elephant. Shall never forget sensation of first sight 
of elephant at close quarters'*, describes in great detail. **Found track of a 
Bongo in the jungle'*, Egyptian Geese. "Another blank day", "despair in our 
hearts ... food running short", ••awfull grass jungle". Major Carnegie's Farm, 
kills Topi & Kongoni, "met young Kermit Roosevelt" (at Njoro) , who'd shot 21 
Bongo. "Wonderful luck a very nice boy, hard as nails & open as anything, no 
side at all. He had got 48 different Mamals in 8 months & was then on his way 
to Mombasa to get a Sable in the Shimba hills. Lord Delaraere (Hugh Cholmondeley, 
pioneer settler in Kenya; owned 100,000 acres in Njoro district, inaugurated 
research on wheat breeding). "Found Delaraere was out with Roosevelt trying to 
get a Bongo", shoots a Bustard; "Perhaps xve may run across a lion", passed a 
gold prospecting Safari, kills Cheetah, L. shoots Kongoni, Zebra, warthogs, hyena, 
jackels: L. shoots a Chandler's Keed buck", "unfortunately a doe". Eland herd, 
L. gets 1 lioness, at end of 16 days Safari had killed 28 beasts "I have done 
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