. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . to work w^ith boots, sun-helmet, w^hatever came handy,to stamp out the fire. The night-watch was smartenough on the spot, bringing buckets of water, andthough amid repeated explosions of cartridges I hadalready extinguished the flames, the men promptlydeluged my bed and belongings ! Considerable force isdeveloped by the explosion of a cordite cartridge, evenwhen unconfined in a barrel, for several of the remain-ing cartridges were bulged and twisted. The bullets,however, of those that had gone off, lay about har
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . to work w^ith boots, sun-helmet, w^hatever came handy,to stamp out the fire. The night-watch was smartenough on the spot, bringing buckets of water, andthough amid repeated explosions of cartridges I hadalready extinguished the flames, the men promptlydeluged my bed and belongings ! Considerable force isdeveloped by the explosion of a cordite cartridge, evenwhen unconfined in a barrel, for several of the remain-ing cartridges were bulged and twisted. The bullets,however, of those that had gone off, lay about harm-lessly. Note, that there were no ticks or other verminin my tent after that accident! THE ATHI RIVER 223 We caught, during January, the young of bothspecies of gazelle, about half-grown. All efforts to rearthem, however, failed—^just as happened with our youngoryx at Baringo. Fresh cows milk is the first essential,and we had none—only tinned stuff. The young ofG. thomsoni are striped vertically, zebra-fashion, in adarker shade. February 5.—Rode out this evening to Khoma. ^■/,/^/ hAu^^^^ GIRAFFES. Note that at the distant view (700 yards) markings are indistinguishable. old bull aj^peared nearly black. The Koppies, to examine once more all the lion-holts andcaves; but again without success, though the spectacleof wild-life enjoyed to-night ranks among the manywondrous scenes I have gazed on in Africa. On openveld below the koppie, half-a-mile from the nearesttrees, grazed seven giraffe—one a huge black bull. Iwatched them put their heads right down, feeding—notactually on grass, but, as 1 presently ascertained, onthe low mimosa-growth among the grass. When stand-ing at ease, the neck is held forward in same plane with 224 ON SAFARI the back, say at an angle of 45 degrees to the ostriches fed with the giraffe, and below, nearerthe wooded donga, seven waterbuck. Close by stood ahyena. Besides the above, there were also in sight of whereI sat on the high k
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