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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
Freretown, where we found evidence of useful civilisa¬ 
tion in the form of neat huts, a church, a school, and 
well-kept paths and roads, and returned to Mr. Shaw’s 
house with a favourable impression of this Mission 
station. Mr. Shaw had lately paid a visit to Mandara, 
the chief of the MoSi,'* a rather important tribe occupy¬ 
ing the Kilima-njaro slopes. On the way he had shot 
two rhinoceros and a giraffe, and he showed us a 
photograph of the latter, taken while it lay wounded 
on the ground: the only other instance I know of a 
wild giralfe being photographed occurred in the Kala¬ 
hari desert, when the well-known gymnast, Lulu, 
operated very successfully on a beast driven to bay by 
Mr. Farini. Mr. Shaw had not fallen in with any 
war parties of the Masai, and did not think it probable 
that we should do so on our way up, as the present 
month was not their favourite raiding season. 
After luncheon we adjourned to the Vice-Consul’s 
house, where our baggage had preceded us. This 
building stands on a small cliff, in the middle of 
Mombasa, and is approached by a steep underground 
staircase excavated in the rock. It is very old and 
bears an ancient Portuguese inscription, and its asso¬ 
ciations are interesting, as it has twice been occupied 
by officials of the English Government, and has often 
given shelter to celebrated explorers while they were 
making arrangements for a start into the interior. 
Mombasa is a pretty old town, and has known pro¬ 
sperous and active times, which, under the governing 
* Modi (proa. Moshi). 
