game country and pretend to no more serious purpose than
merely to relate the experiences of a self-confessed amateur under such
conditions.

JOHN T. McCUTCHEON

_August, 1910_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE Page
The Preparation for Departure. Experiences with Willing
Friends and Advisers 1

CHAPTER TWO
The First Half of the Voyage. From Naples to the Red Sea,
with a Few Side-Lights on Indian Ocean Travel 13

CHAPTER THREE
The Island of Mombasa, with the Jungles of Equatorial Africa
"Only a Few Blocks Away." A Story of the World's Champion
Man-Eating Lions 28

CHAPTER FOUR
On the Edge of the Athi Plains, Face to Face with Herds of
Wild Game. Up in a Balloon at Nairobi 43

CHAPTER FIVE
Into the Heart of the Big Game Country with a Retinue of
More Than One Hundred Natives. A Safari and What It Is 65

CHAPTER SIX
A Lion Drive. With a Rhino in Range Some One Shouts
"Simba" and I Get My First Glimpse of a Wild Lion. Three
Shots and Out 82

CHAPTER SEVEN
On the Tana River, the Home of the Rhino. The Timid are
Frightened, the Dangerous Killed, and Others Photographed.
Moving Pictures of a Rhino Charge 105

CHAPTER EIGHT
Meeting Colonel Roosevelt in the Uttermost Outpost of
Semi-Civilization. He Talks of Many Things, Hears that he has
Been Reported Dead, and Promptly Plans an Elephant Hunt 123

CHAPTER NINE
The Colonel Reads Macaulay's "Essays," Discourses on Many
Subjects with Great Frankness, Declines a Drink of Scotch
Whisky, and Kills Three Elephants 141

CHAPTER TEN
Elephant Hunting Not an Occasion for Lightsome Merrymaking.
Five Hundred Thousand Acres of Forest in Which the
Kenia Elephant Lives, Wanders and Brings Up His Children 164

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Nine Days Without Seeing an Elephant. The Roosevelt
Party Departs and We March for the Mountains on Our Big
Elephant Hunt. The Policeman of the Plains 184

CHAPTER TWELVE
"Twas the Day Before Christmas." Photographing a Charging
Elephant, Cornering a Wounded Elephant