Archive image from page 281 of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring discoveryoflakes01hhne1 Year: 1894 256 TIIROUCIH MASAILAND TO THE EOEJDERS OF KIKUYU dog The neighbourhood of Doenye Erok is a regular zoological garden. The steep slopes, especially near the base of the mountain, are clothed with luxuriant vegetation, chiefly acacias, the nickname of erok, or black, originating in the dark colour of the foliage. Moreover, the trees stand well apart and without the dense undergrowth usual in tropical Africa, and
Archive image from page 281 of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring discoveryoflakes01hhne1 Year: 1894 256 TIIROUCIH MASAILAND TO THE EOEJDERS OF KIKUYU dog The neighbourhood of Doenye Erok is a regular zoological garden. The steep slopes, especially near the base of the mountain, are clothed with luxuriant vegetation, chiefly acacias, the nickname of erok, or black, originating in the dark colour of the foliage. Moreover, the trees stand well apart and without the dense undergrowth usual in tropical Africa, and amongst them roam countless Mpala antelopes and a kind of wild But for the sound of their footsteps and the occasional c]-y of a small hornbill with a slender red bill and mottled dark - o-reen feathers, absolute silence reigned. We liked go- ing to this wood just to watch the wild creatures in it. The bush - grown steppe beyond the moun- tain was tenanted by numerous rhinoceroses, giraffes, zebras, wild boars, gnus, gazelles, ostriches, bustards, guinea-fowls, and part- In half an hour's walk Count Teleki wounded four zebras, but he lost them all, as he had gone out alone, and did not like to go too far from the camp. When close home he also brought down an antelope of the size and shape and with the horns of a gazelle, but of the brownish-red colour of a European stag, with white hair on the abdomen. The following day he shot a rhinoceros and a wild boar, having seen two other rhinoceroses. The next afternoon the Count hunted alono- the eastern base of the mountain, where he was much hindered by HOENS OF GAZELLE (SPECIES UNKNOWN ridges
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