In the Grip of the Nyika: Further Adventures in British East Africa (1909)

J. H. Patterson, was a British soldier, hunter, author and Christian Zionist, best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907), which details his experiences while building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya in 1898–99. In this follow up book, he "endeavoured to give a plain account of the trials and adventures which befell me on two recent expeditions through the nyika, or wilderness, in British East Africa. On the first trip there were three of us, and all returned safely to civilisation, although dangers were not wholly absent. On the second and longer expedition there were also three Europeans, but, alas! only two got back, the nyika having claimed the third; nor was the god of the wilds content with this sacrifice, for, in addition, he claimed several of my native followers. He laid his deadly grip on me as well, but I was wrested from him by the care and attention of my companion, to whose skilful nursing I feel I owe my life.
In relating the events of the journey I have considered it incumbent on me, not only to tell the exciting adventures among the wild men and wild beasts of the regions traversed, but also to give some of the more tiresome detail connected with a safari in the nyika, as my object all through has been to describe everything exactly as it actually happened."


CONTENTS
TSAVO REVISITED I
CHAPTER II
AT NAIROBI
CHAPTER III
ON SAFARI
CHAPTER IV
ON THE YATTA PLATEAU
CHAPTER V
A FRUITLESS LION HUNT
CHAPTER VI
CHASED BY A RHINO
CHAPTER VII
THROUGH A GAME COUNTRY
CHAPTER VIII
AN EVENTFUL XMAS DAY
CAPTER IX
OUR CAMP BY THE THIK.A RIVER
CHAPTER X
PREPARATIONS FOR A SECOND EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XI
ON SAFARI TO THE NORTH
CHAPTER XII
AN ADVENTURE WITH LIONS IN A SHOMA
CHAPTER XIII
THROUGH LAIKIPIA
CHAPTER XIV
ALONG THE GUASO NAROK
CHAPTER XV
THE MASAI
CHAPTER XVI
ACROSS COUNTRY TO THE GUASO NYIRO
CHAPTER XVII
ALONG THE GUASO NYIRO
CHAPTER XVIII
AN ADVENTURE WITH A CROCODILE
CHAPTER XIX
THROUGH SAMBURU LAND
CHAPTER XX
IN QUEST OF THE BOUNDARY
CHAPTER XXI
A ROGUE ELEPHANT KILLS ALADDIN
CHAPTER XXII
A RHINO CONCERT
CHAPTER XXIII
THE TRAGEDY IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER XXIV
ACROSS THE KAISOOT DESERT
CHAPTER XXV
AT MARSABIT
CHAPTER XXVI
SOUTHWARD ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XXVII
BACK TO THE GUASO NYIRO
CHAPTER XXVIII
WE REACH THE MERU COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXIX
THROUGH THE MERU COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXX
BACK TO NAIROBI



This book published in 1909 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.