. African game trails. Hunting. ON SAFARI. RHINO AND GIRAFFE lis their beautifully striped bodies showing finely in the sun- light. We scanned the country round about with our glasses, and made out first a herd of elands, a mile in our rear, and then three giraffes a mile and a half in our front. I wanted a bull eland, but I wanted a giraffe still more, and we mounted our horses and rode tow- ard where the three tall beasts stood, on an open hill-side with trees thinly scattered over it. Half a mile from them we left the horses in a thick belt of timber beside a dry watercourse, and went forwa
. African game trails. Hunting. ON SAFARI. RHINO AND GIRAFFE lis their beautifully striped bodies showing finely in the sun- light. We scanned the country round about with our glasses, and made out first a herd of elands, a mile in our rear, and then three giraffes a mile and a half in our front. I wanted a bull eland, but I wanted a giraffe still more, and we mounted our horses and rode tow- ard where the three tall beasts stood, on an open hill-side with trees thinly scattered over it. Half a mile from them we left the horses in a thick belt of timber beside a dry watercourse, and went forward on foot. There was no use in trying a stalk, for that would merely have aroused the giraffe's sus- picion. But we knew they were accustomed to the passing and repassing of Wakamba men and women, whom they did not fear if they kept at a reasonable distance, so we walked in single file diagonally in their direc- tion; that is, toward a tree which I judged to be about three hundred yards from them. I was carrying the Win- chester loaded with full metal-patched bullets. I wished to get for the museum both a bull and a cow. One of the three giraffes was much larger than the other two, and as he was evidently a bull I thought the two others were cows. As we reached the tree the giraffes showed symptoms of uneasiness. One of the smaller ones began to make off,. Masai Elmoran, Machakos road station From a photograph by Edmund Hellet. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, C. Scribner's sons
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