. African game trails. Hunting. f ^ ON AN EAST AFRICAN RANCH 53 saw most while at Kitanga and in the neighborhood, were the zebra, wildebeest, hartebeest, Grant's gazelle, and *'tommies" or Thomson's gazelle; the zebra, and the hartebeest, usually known by the Swahili name of kon- goni, being by far the most plentiful. Then there were impalla, mountain reedbuck, duiker, steinbuck, and dimin-. Some of the naturalists' porters and skinners From n photograph by J. A Men Lorit/g utive dikdik. As we travelled and hunted we were hardly ever out of sight of game; and on Pease's farm itself there
. African game trails. Hunting. f ^ ON AN EAST AFRICAN RANCH 53 saw most while at Kitanga and in the neighborhood, were the zebra, wildebeest, hartebeest, Grant's gazelle, and *'tommies" or Thomson's gazelle; the zebra, and the hartebeest, usually known by the Swahili name of kon- goni, being by far the most plentiful. Then there were impalla, mountain reedbuck, duiker, steinbuck, and dimin-. Some of the naturalists' porters and skinners From n photograph by J. A Men Lorit/g utive dikdik. As we travelled and hunted we were hardly ever out of sight of game; and on Pease's farm itself there were many thousand head; and so there were on Slatter's. If wealthy men who desire sport of the most varied and interesting kind would purchase farms like these they could get, for much less money, many times the interest and enjoyment a deer-forest or grouse-moor can afford. The wildebeest or gnu were the shyest and least plenti- ful, but in some ways the most interesting, because of the queer streak of ferocious eccentricity evident in all their actions. They were of all the animals those that were most exclusively dwellers in the open, where there was neither. 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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