iiFRICii. QUILTER (MAJOR A.V*.) TVJO AUTOGRAPH JOURNALS of Safaris - upwards of 
150 pp. thk. 4to. notebooks in pen & pencil, 1909-11 . one begins Oct 28th. 
ending Jan 11 & the other Dec 20th. & ends March 7th, loosely inserted in one 
journal is Gun Tax Receipt for 1909. Issued to f'ajor A.IJ. Quilter, Nairobi, 
headed ''East Africa Protectorate** & signed by R. Skene, District Commissioner 
of Mombasa. The journal which begins Oct 28th. records '*we shall go straight 
up to the Lake & into the Kizii Country**, fever delays journey, with Gifford, 
H. Grosvenor & Somers; by Oct 31 scenting Game & sees Kongoni, Impala, 
Ostriches, Wildebeestes, Giraffes, Rhino; Safari consists of 31 "l Gun bearer 
apiece, 1 boy between us, 1 cook, 1 headman ... porters also employ boys to 
carry their personal belongings**, up mountains "still climbing up - about 7000 
ft.**, jungle, then parklike country ** fairly thickly populated by the Kizii 
people ... they are fine savages, but not quite so fine as the Lurabwas ... all 
the young men carry spears & do not wear much but a single string of beads round 
the waist. The women wear a blanket & a good many bracelets & ornaments**; 
contd 
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