CONTENTS
CHAPTER
ONE
The Preparation for Departure. Experiences with Willing Friends and
Advisers
CHAPTER
TWO
The First Half of the Voyage. From Naples to the Red Sea, with a Few
Side-Lights on Indian Ocean Travel
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
CHAPTER
FOUR
On the Edge of the Athi Plains, Face to Face with Herds of Wild
Game. Up in a Balloon at Nairobi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CHAPTER
TWELVE
"Twas the Day Before Christmas." Photographing a Charging
Elephant, Cornering a Wounded Elephant in a River Jungle Growth. A Thrilling
Charge. Hassan's Courage
CHAPTER
THIRTEEN
In the Swamps of the Guas Ngishu. Beating for Lions We Came Upon
a Strange and Fascinating Wild Beast, Which Became Attached to Our Party. The
Little Wanderobo Dog
CHAPTER
FOURTEEN
Who's Who in Jungleland. The Hartebeest and the Wildebeest, the
Amusing Giraffe and the Ubiquitous Zebra, the Lovely Gazelle and the Gentle
Impalla
CHAPTER
FIFTEEN
Some Natural History in Which it is Revealed that a Sing-Sing
Waterbuck is Not a Singing Topi, and that a Topi is Not a Species of
Head-dress
CHAPTER
SIXTEEN
In the Tall Grass of the Mount Elgon Country. A Narrow Escape
from a Long-Horned Rhino. A Thanksgiving Dinner and a Visit to a Native
Village
CHAPTER
SEVENTEEN
Up and Down the Mountain Side from the Ketosh Village to the
Great Cave of Bats. A Dramatic Episode with the Finding of a Black Baby as a
Climax
CHAPTER
EIGHTEEN
Electric Lights, Motor-Cars and Fifteen Varieties of Wild Game.
Chasing Lions Across the Country in a Carriage
CHAPTER
NINETEEN
The Last Word in Lion Hunting. Methods of Trailing, Ensnaring
and Otherwise Outwitting the King of Beasts. A Chapter of Adventures
CHAPTER
TWENTY
Abdullah the Cook and Some Interesting Gastronomic Experiences.
Thirteen Tribes Represented in the Safari. Abdi's Story of His Uncle and the
Lions
CHAPTER
TWENTY-ONE
Back Home from Africa. Ninety Days on the Way Through India,
Java, China, Manila and Japan. Three Chow Dogs and a Final Series of Amusing
Adventures
CHAPTER
TWENTY-TWO
Ways and Means. What to Take and What Not to Take. Information
for Those that Wish, Intend or Hope to Hunt in the African Highlands
