Though an early coffee venture was doomed to failure he was having such a nice time that he induced two others of his brothers to give up their career training in England to join him in Uganda. The failure of the coffee enterprise necessitated the three brothers finding some other means of support, and these afforded wonderful
opportunity for adventure and escapades which are the meat of this book.

The hunting of game became their passion and took them all over East Africa to the extent that one of them eventually got killed by a lion whilst hunting in the Belgian Congo. But the slaughter of elephant, hippo, lion et al was not frowned upon then as it is now so that they prospered and were feted by the local population for the apparent service they were providing. They should be judged by 1910 mores not 2010 ones.

Prosperity came after the First World War, in which they participated in the lake borne raid on Bukoba, with the arrival of the fourth brother and their playing an important role in the development of the cotton industry with a string of ginneries around Lake Kiogya, the sale of which enabled them to virtually retire to Kaptagat near Eldoret.

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