Word: wandorobo
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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Coolidge described his journey into East Africa via Nairobi to Kijabe, where he set out across a waterless desert with a train of bullock wagons to the Wandorobo river. This was the only method of crossing this stretch, for the bullocks were able to travel several days without water. Among the game he shot and photographed were lions, leopards, bush cats, cheetahs, ostriches, and rhinos...
After a month spent along the Wandorobo, Coolidge was joined by Colby, and they started for Mt. Suswa to shoot lions. One night after the latter had obtained several fine specimens, a stockade was built and a dead antelope placed nearby as a decoy. On this carcass Coolidge arranged a camera with a string attached to the shutter and then waited inside the stockade. He had taken two splendid flashlight pictures of lionesses and was rearranging the camera when a large lion charged him. He ran and dove through the door of the enclosure. Next morning the lion's tracks...
...Nairobi, where he arranged for an escort of natives. He then took the railway to Kizabe, where he struck out into the wilderness. After leaving Kizabe he traveled with an ox-wagon across a waterless plain, where it was impossible to go with native bearers, as far as the Wandorobo River. Coolidge spent a month in the forest country in the vicinity of the river, where he found an abundance of game. He then returned to the railway, where he was joined by Colby, who has had experience in hunting in Ceylon, India, and Alaska. As they were anxious...
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