A telegram addressed to any sportsman in East Africa would reach him if only addressed with his name and the words "British East Africa." There are only four or five thousand white residents in the whole protectorate, and the names of these are duly catalogued and known to the post-office officials both in Mombasa and Nairobi.
[Photograph: _In the Forest_] If a strange name appears on a letter or despatch, inquiries are made and the identity of the stranger is quickly established.

If he is a sportsman, the outfitters in Nairobi will know who he is.

They will have equipped him with porters and the other essentials of a caravan, and they will know exactly in which section of the protectorate he is hunting.

So the letter is readdressed in care of the _boma_ or government station, nearest to that section.

The letter duly arrives at the _boma_, and a native runner is told to go out and deliver the message.