Illustrations

Arab sheikhs who had ridden in, camel-back, from the desert to pay their respects Frontispiece

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Sir Alfred Pease’s sketch of our first giraffe hunt 24

Father and R. H. Munro Ferguson at the Elkhorn Ranch, after the return from a successful hunting trip 34

Facsimile of a picture letter by father 38

Putting the tape on a tusker 42

Launching a newly made dugout on the Dúvida 44

A relic of the Portuguese occupation; an old well beside the trail 56

The Death Dance of the Wa Nyika children in memory of the chieftain’s little son 58

Across the bay from Mombasa; the porters ready to shoulder loads and march 66

A desert camp in old Mexico 78

Casares on his white mule 88

Making fast the sheep’s head 96

A noonday halt on the way down river, returning from the hunting country 106

Bringing out the trophies of the hunt 118

The Captain makes advances to a little Indian girl 152

A morning’s bag of prairie chicken in South Dakota 170

I The Happy Hunting-Grounds