. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . , 1S| ins. (shot later) ; cow, log ius. ; immature, lOf ins. measured lOf ins. in length along the front curve. HowI came to kill this small beast I never quite the bullet, missing its mark, had struck another ;more probably (the distance being great and the grasslong) the luckless youngster had been standing in frontof a larger animal, which masked the separate , it lay there dead ; and, after all, its hornsexhibit an interesting phase of growth. That evening, close to camp, I saw an
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . , 1S| ins. (shot later) ; cow, log ius. ; immature, lOf ins. measured lOf ins. in length along the front curve. HowI came to kill this small beast I never quite the bullet, missing its mark, had struck another ;more probably (the distance being great and the grasslong) the luckless youngster had been standing in frontof a larger animal, which masked the separate , it lay there dead ; and, after all, its hornsexhibit an interesting phase of growth. That evening, close to camp, I saw another retreated into heavy bush overhanging the banks ofa stream—a favourable place to hustle him out. I hadfifteen boys with me, Swahilis, but to my surprisenot one of them would face the job, and the leopard ENDERIT RIVER AND LAKE NAKURU 37 escaped tliroiigh an irrational care for their preciousblack skins. For a mob of noisy beaters there was nodanger whatever. The nomad Masai were moving towards the lake, andthis evening (August 5) we saw in many directions the. ii:, %,^i i/./
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