Porters must be sent back for food, often six or eight days; or else a bullock wagon must be used for that purpose.

In our _safari_ we used two wagons, drawn by thirty oxen, to supplement the porters in keeping up food supplies, and even by so doing there were times when rations ran low.

In such times we would shoot game for them, either kongoni or zebra, both of which are considered great delicacies by the black man.
However, this is not telling about my memorable elephant experiences in the Guas Ngishu Plateau.
We got back to the Nzoia River on December third.

On the fifteenth, after many more unsuccessful attempts to get in touch with a herd, Mr.
Akeley and I resolved to try the mountain again.

We thought that perhaps the elephants might have moved northward along the eastern slope, and so we thought we'd push clear up to the Turkwel River and find out beyond question.