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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
Masai, whose constant and sanguinary cattle raids 
have almost denuded the district for hundreds of miles 
of its aboriginal inhabitants, this country had not yet 
been shot over, and offered to sportsmen, prepared to 
“ rough it a bit,” all the attractions of a new field for 
enterprise ; so when my friend finished his letter with 
a suggestion that I should join him in the expedition, 
I gladly availed myself of the chance and gave up my 
original idea without any feeling of regret. 
It afterwards transpired that B- had taken in¬ 
finite trouble to arrange for a large escort, sufficiently 
well armed to justify a reasonable prospect of success, 
and with that object in view had two years previously 
visited Lamu, Mombasa, and Zanzibar, returning with 
valuable inland information, in addition to a thorough 
knowledge of the way the ropes would have to be 
worked from the starting point. 
Our party, in addition to myself, consisted of Harvey, 
his brother, C. B. Harvey, 4nd Ii. C. V. Hunter, to whom 
I refer in the text, for sake of brevity, as B - , C - , 
and H - . We fully realised that a certain amount 
of risk must be incurred from the probable hostility of 
the Masai and other native tribes; but this danger we 
hoped to reduce to a minimum by obtaining a strong 
and fairly reliable following to be placed under the 
command of Martin, a Maltese, who had proved his 
eminent fitness for the post during his term of service 
with Mr. J. Thomson, the well-known explorer of 
Masai-land. 
Our idea was to proceed to Zanzibar direct, and 
