. African game trails;. Hunting. TO LAKE NAIVASHA 247 had two Masai guides, tireless runners, as graceful and sinewy as panthers; they helped us; but Cuninghame had to do most of the pathfinding himself. It was a diffi- cult country, passable only at certain points, which it was hard to place with exactness. We had seen that each porter had his water bottle full before starting; but, though will- ing, good-humored fellows, strong as bulls, in fore- thought they are of the grasshopper type; and all but a few exhausted their supply by mid-afternoon. At this time we were- among bold mountain ridg
. African game trails;. Hunting. TO LAKE NAIVASHA 247 had two Masai guides, tireless runners, as graceful and sinewy as panthers; they helped us; but Cuninghame had to do most of the pathfinding himself. It was a diffi- cult country, passable only at certain points, which it was hard to place with exactness. We had seen that each porter had his water bottle full before starting; but, though will- ing, good-humored fellows, strong as bulls, in fore- thought they are of the grasshopper type; and all but a few exhausted their supply by mid-afternoon. At this time we were- among bold mountain ridges, and here we struck the kraal of some Masai, who watered their cattle at some spring pools, three miles to one side, up a valley. It was too far for the heavily laden porters; but we cantered our horses thither and let them drink their fill; and then can- tered along the trail left by the safari until we overtook the rear men just as they were going over the brink of the Mau escarpment. The scenery was wild and beautiful; in the open places the ground was starred with flowers of many colors; we rode under vine-tangled archways through forests of strange trees. Down the steep mountain side went the safari, and at its foot struck off nearly parallel to the high ridge. On our left the tree-clad mountain side hung above us; ravines, ?m. A sick Masai boy and his father The sheep is a present to Dr. Mearns for services From a photograph by J. Alden Loring. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, London, Syndicate publishing company
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