Scribner’s Magazine 
VOL. XLVIII JULY, 1910 NO. 1 
AFRICAN GAME TRAILS* 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN 
HUNTER-NATURALIST 
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 
X.—THE GUASO NYERO; A RIVER OF THE EQUATORIAL DESERT 
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THEN I reached Neri, after com¬ 
ing down from killing my first 
elephant on Kenia, I was kept 
waiting two or three days before I could 
gather enough Kikuyu porters. As I could 
word of their lanj 
not speak a word of their language I got 
a couple of young Scotch settlers, very good 
fellows, to take charge of the safari out to 
where I intended to hunt. There was a 
party of the King’s African Rifles camped 
at Neri; the powerful-looking enlisted men 
were from the south, chiefly from one of 
the northernmost tribes of Zulu blood, and 
their two officers were of the best Kipling- 
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