The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
COLONIAL HOSPITALITY


After landing at Mombasa we were put UP at the
clubs in Mombasa and Narobi, attended dinners and
luncheons introduced and given all possible privileges
by those whom had met on board the steamship.
Thus were made acquainted with people all the
way from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza all of
whom showed us the true colonial hospitality which
is nowhere marked than in East Africa and
Uganda.
1T soon became apparent that hunting in British
East Africa conducted business principles.
We had to pay an entrance duty and a registration
fee rifles On arriving at Nairob we had to
take sportsman's license; in fact, every one
who shoots has to take license of kindsetter,
traveller or whoever it may be.
THE ride from Mombasa to Nairobi was cor
roboration of the stories told by passengers
board the ship. think truthfully say that we
saw between 10000 and $4,000 head of game. l
counted herd after herd of animals with from 80 to
90 in herd. / could often see from 100 to 200
animals at time at low estimate. They
principally zebras, hartebeest, Grant gazele Thom-
son gazelle, wdebeest and occasionally giraffe
wild hog. Several ostriches also observed. /
have also lions, oryx and other animals
Gases have been known where lions have been
killed by hunters who have sighted them from the
train and then got off and shot them On the other
hand lion has been known to car, kill man,
drag his body through the window and devour part of
him behind neighboring bush.
The other animals of Africa, besides the ee-
phant lion buffalo and rhinoceros, that usually
hunted account of their beautiful heads and horns
are the eland sable and antelope, the greater
and lesser kudu, the waterbuck irnpala bushbuck
and reedbuck
TAt Nairobi the hunter goes to the hotel, where
the tariff for him is just twice that of the settler
which is perhaps fair he is not regular customer
the settler is AS he looks around the dining room
he sees men in khaki suits and flannel shirts while
others are dressed in the height of fashion, men with
long hair, with short hair; men with boards
men with smooth faces. There are English lords
Spanish and Italian dukes, and marquises, Ger
man, French and Belgian hunters settlers govern
mental officers, guides and white hunters and travelling
businessmen. Among the nobility who shoot
ing at about the same time with me were the Duke
dAlba and the Counts de Panderand and Medina,
cousins of the king of Spain; the of Turin,
cousin of the king of Italy, and cousin of the
emperor of Germany. The duke dAbruzzi had been
there the year before
Around the corridors and parlors of the hotel
one sees the heads and horns of every kind of animal
to be found in that part of Africa. Men are
stantly going and coming in from safaris. Long
lines of black porters marching by; rickshaw
boys rushing people up and taking them away;
Indians, Arabs and Somalis in all kinds of costumes
are walking about
"The hunter there organizes his safari, or ex-
petition, which is composed of porters cooks, gun
bearers, personal boys, askares, leader and
white hunter, we'll camping outfit and food
supply from of the safari outhtters and soon he
is on his way the vedt, or Jungle Before leaving
he goes his entire outfit and leaves all his travel
ing clothes which he has worn up to this time at the
hotel after which he packs his hunting outfit clothes
shoes, ammunition, picture films blankets, etc, into
boxes, filling them so that they will not weigh over