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Title: African Camp Fires

Author: Stewart Edward White

Release Date: December 24, 2004 [EBook #14451]

Language: English

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AFRICAN CAMP FIRES

BY

STEWART EDWARD WHITE

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN
AND NEW YORK

CONTENTS.

PART I.--TO THE ISLAND OF WAR.

I. THE OPEN DOOR

II. THE FAREWELL

III. PORT SAID

IV. SUEZ

V. THE RED SEA

VI. ADEN

VII. THE INDIAN OCEAN

VIII. MOMBASA

PART II.--THE SHIMBA HILLS.

IX. A TROPICAL JUNGLE

X. THE SABLE

XI. A MARCH ALONG THE COAST

XII. THE FIRE

PART III.--NAIROBI.

XIII. UP FROM THE COAST

XIV. A TOWN OF CONTRASTS

XV. PEOPLE

XVI. RECRUITING

PART IV.--A LION HUNT ON KAPITI.

XVII. AN OSTRICH FARM AT MACHAKOS

XVIII. THE FIRST LIONESS

XIX. THE DOGS

XX. BONDONI

XXI. RIDING THE PLAINS

XXII. THE SECOND LIONESS

XXIII. THE BIG LION

XXIV. THE FIFTEEN LIONS

PART V.--THE TSAVO RIVER.

XXV. VOI

XXVI. THE FRINGE-EARED ORYX

XXVII. ACROSS THE SERENGETTI

XXVIII. DOWN THE RIVER

XXIX. THE LESSER KUDU

XXX. ADVENTURES BY THE WAY

XXXI. THE LOST SAFARI

XXXII. THE BABU

PART VI.--IN MASAILAND.

XXXIII. OVER THE LIKIPIA ESCARPMENT

XXXIV. TO THE KEDONG

XXXV. THE TEANSPORT RIDER

XXXVI. ACROSS THE THIRST

XXXVII. THE SOUTHERN GUASO NYERO

XXXVIII. THE LOWER BENCHES

XXXIX. NOTES ON THE MASAI

XL. THROUGH THE ENCHANTED FOREST

XLI. NAIOKOTUKU

XLII. SCOUTING IN THE ELEPHANT FOREST

XLIII. THE TOPI CAMP

XLIV. THE UNKNOWN LAND

XLV. THE ROAN

XLVI. THE GREATER KUDU

XLVII. THE MAGIC PORTALS CLOSE

XLVIII. THE LAST TREK

PART I.

TO THE ISLAND OF WAR.