The first two were on Mount Kenia and the last two were on the Guas Ngishu Plateau, near where it merges into the lower slopes of Mount Elgon.

The first and the fourth experiences were terrifying ones, never to be forgotten.

An Englishman, if he were to describe them, would say "they were rather nasty, you know," which indicates how really serious they were.

The second and the third experiences were interesting, but not particularly dangerous.
Mount Kenia is a great motherly mountain that spreads over an immense area and raises its snow-capped peaks over eighteen thousand feet above the equator.

The lower slopes are as beautiful as a park and are covered with the fields and the herds of the prosperous Kikuyus and other tribes.