EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
CHAPTER I. 
The origin and object of the Expedition—Preliminary arrangements— 
Departure for Zanzibar—Lamu—Arrival at Zanzibar. 
In the summer of 1886 I decided to pass my winter 
leave in India, and therefore wrote to my old friend Sir 
Robert Harvey, who had spent the greater part of the 
last ten years in shooting over that and other countries, 
but who was then at home, to enquire whether he in¬ 
tended returning to India in the autumn, as if so we 
might arrange to travel out together. He replied that 
he proposed starting for Mombasa in November, and 
working his way inland until he reached the forest of 
Taveta and the adjacent virgin hunting grounds in 
the plains surrounding the base of Mount Kilima¬ 
njaro, an isolated and giant mountain situated on the 
borders of the land of the warlike Masai. He added 
a detailed account of his proposed plans, and excited 
my imagination with a description of the abundance 
and variety of game to he met with in those regions. 
Owing to the wide-spread terror inspired by the 
