Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n Japan, but have heavy wheels andcarrv two persons, with two natives to push and one to pull.The nights are rather cold, but the midday sun is very hot. Tous, after one clay out of the sweltering heat of Mombasa, itseemed delightful. If we w^ere to select this part of the worldas a permanent place of residence, which we do not anticipate,we should certainly live in Nairobi. The courts and other gov-ernment business is now transacted in one-story sheet ironhouses, but this will all be changed in a few years. Some beau-tiful bungalows have been built in the suburbs, with handsomegardens. The growing of fruits has not yet progressed far enoughto decide what is best suited to this climate, but most tropicalfruits will do w^ell. Corn and wheat are raised in this sectionin a small way. Nairobi is a great center for big game hunting, and mostof the hunting parties, or Safari, as they are called in this coun-try, are made up here. If you were to come out to Africa to 37 OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA
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NAIROBI lumt or to shoot, as they say, you would come to this placeand hire one hundred porters to carry your camping outfit.Also gun bearers and cooks. To each porter you would haveto give a blanket. Then go marching to those places where itis reported plenty of game is to be found. First you must geta hunters license, which will cost two hundred and fifty dollarsand allows you to hunt outside of the game reservations, forone year, and limits you to two elephants, twenty zebras, twobuffalos and no giraffe, and many other variety of animals,limited to two; and you may kill as many lions and leopardsas you can. After you have made all preparations you arestill not sure of success. A hunter wdth a friend had been outfor some time wnth a large number of porters, and all thingsneeded, and had really gotten almost nothing. They saw threeherds of elephants and were near enough to photograph them,but did not kill any. It is not encouraging when it is rainingevery day and one is tramping thro

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