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pas and had no accommodations on the boat we intended leav¬ 
ing May ioth by. Everything else was taken for a couple 
of months in advance. 
We decided we might do better by being on the ground, 
personally. Camp, therefore, was ordered broken at daybreak, 
to commence a forced march to Nairobi. 
Hot. Safari left at 6 o’clock, marching twenty-nine miles 
to Ruera River. 
We followed later. Lunched with Mr. Bush, government 
engineer, in camp completing concrete-bridge over the Thika 
and over Chania Falls. States he has been two years at this 
work and has had a number of men killed by lions. About 
a year ago, five lions came through the middle of his camp at 
3 P. M.; one, a lioness, stopping to kill a black boy on the 
way. This created such a panic that the animal escaped with¬ 
out injury. 
“M’Toto,” our baby antelope, now eats grass and takes 
milk from a saucer. 
Hot. Reached Nairobi, nineteen miles march, at ii A. M., 
and proceeded to disband safari immediately. 
The news regarding accommodations on the steamers was 
very discouraging, and we decided that the best course to 
pursue was to go to Mombassa, as soon as the work of dis¬ 
banding the caravan, etc., was completed. Being on hand our¬ 
selves might be very advantageous in getting passage. As a 
last resort, we decided to take our sleeping-bags, and, if neces¬ 
sary, stow away on deck somewhere, using wash-rooms for 
dressing, and so on. 
Had a new cage built for the young lion, who is doing 
nicely. 
Learmonth and I spent the morning assorting skins and 
trophies. Sportsmen, we had learned, should always be pres¬ 
ent at sorting and packing, and allow themselves about a week 
to close up affairs before sailing—especially if there be horses, 
mules, donkeys or ivory to dispose of. 
Both Newland and Tarlton, of the firm by that name, have 
been down with fever, and the latter is still very ill. It will 
be some time before the trophies are shipped, their illness nat¬ 
urally delaying things. 
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