This is the only statement of casualties I have seen, and I give these figures with every reservation, doubting the aggregate and its completeness. They will, however, suffice to show that there is a remarkable percentage of killed, and this may largely be put down to the closeness of the fighting, and that at times the attacking forces were advancing on entrenched positions without protection of any kind to themselves. ANGUS BUCHANAN. CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD ix PREFACE xviii CHAPTER I. OUTWARD BOUND 1 II. FRONTIER LIFE 17 III. CATTLE RAIDERS 43 IV. THE FIRST ADVANCE 64 V. THE SECOND TREK 87 VI. THE THIRD STAGE 125 VII. THE END OF THE CAMPAIGN ON GERMAN SOIL 173 VIII. NATURE NOTES 200 IX. HERE AND HEREAFTER 225 INDEX 242 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LUKIGURA RIVER _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE KILIMANJARO 34 THE NECK AT “GERMAN BRIDGE” 92 GERMAN PAPER RUPEE 106 NATIVE KRAAL 144 A GOOD BAG: 268½ LB. OF IVORY 160 TANDAMUTI 188 OSTRICHES 202 LIST OF MAPS FROM THE FRONTIER TO MOROGORO 86 MOROGORO TO RUFIJI RIVER 124 LINDI AREA 172 THREE YEARS OF WAR IN EAST AFRICA CHAPTER I OUTWARD BOUND It was raining in London. It had been raining all day, and for many days previous, and to-night the atmosphere of damp and greyness pervaded the very soul of the city outdoors. [Sidenote: FRONTIERSMEN AT WATERLOO] Number Seven platform, at Waterloo Station, was crowded with troops and baggage, about to depart for service with the B.E.F. in East Africa. They had arrived at the station at 6 p.m. At 11 p.m. they were still there grouped about in talkative jollying clusters, apparently indifferent to the delay in entraining.