de la Huerta, and reported no lions during their few days in the district.

Prince Lichtenstein was also somewhere on the plateau, but we didn't run across him.

In addition to these three parties and ours, the only other expedition in the Guas Ngishu Plateau was Colonel Roosevelt's party, toward which, by previous agreement, we made our way.
A number of months before Mr.Akeley, who headed our party, was dining with President Roosevelt at the White House.

In the course of their talk, which was about Africa and Mr.Akeley's former African hunting and collecting experiences, the latter had told the president about a group of elephants that he was going to collect and mount for the American Museum of History in New York.

President Roosevelt was asked if he would cooeperate in the work, and he expressed a keen willingness to do so.
When our party arrived at Nairobi, in September, a letter awaited Mr.
Akeley, renewing Colonel Roosevelt's desire to help in collecting the group.
It was in answer to this invitation that Mr.Akeley and our party had gone to the Mount Elgon country to meet Mr.Roosevelt and carry out the elephant-hunting compact made many months before at the White House.
[Photograph: Kermit, Leslie Tarlton and Colonel Roosevelt] [Photograph: Winding Through Unbroken Country] [Photograph: Our Safari on the March] Eleven days of marching and hunting from the railroad brought us to Sergoi, the very uttermost outpost of semi-civilization.