It is the most promising place, however, for black-maned lion and elephant, and on account of these two capital prizes in the lottery of big game hunting occasional parties are willing to venture the time and expense necessary to reach this district.
We disembarked, or "detrained," as they say down there, at a little station on the railroad called Londiani, eight miles south of the equator and about eighty miles from Victoria Nyanza.

Then with two transport wagons drawn by thirty oxen, our horses for "galloping" lions, and one hundred porters, we marched north, always at an altitude of from seventy-five hundred to ninety-two hundred feet, through vast forests that stretched for miles on all sides.

The country was beautiful beyond words--clean, wholesome, and vast.

In many places the scenery was as trim, and apparently as finished as sections of the wooded hills and meadows of Surrey.

One might easily imagine oneself in a great private estate where landscape gardeners had worked for years.
[Drawing: _One of the Transport Wagons_] At night the cold was keen and four blankets were necessary the night we camped two miles from the equator.