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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
fied with using our tents. Of course, the natives on 
our arrival collected in large numbers, and brought 
a message from Mandara, stating he was some way 
farther up the mountain, but would come down to 
receive us later on in the day at a shed just below our 
encampment where he was in the habit of giving 
audience to his visitors. 
Mandara formerly lived on the spot occuped by this 
shed, which is 4000 feet above the sea ; but since the 
Wa-kiboso attacked him about six months previously, 
when he only just escaped with his life, he had pre¬ 
ferred living another thousand feet higher up, for 
greater security, where he occupied a house made of 
galvanised iron which he obtained from the mission¬ 
aries. We made ourselves as comfortable as we could, 
and awaited with some interest the arrival of the 
cleverest and most enlightened savage chief, the swag¬ 
gering bully of all these parts. 
