Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph elephanthuntingi00neum Year: 1898 142 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA occasional lesser koodoo or two, a little lot of impala, some- times, at one particular point, and rarely an odd bushbuck, are all that is seen, without counting the diminutive paa, and now and again a rhino, giraffe, or hippo spoor. Formerly there was a sprinkling of bu
Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph elephanthuntingi00neum Year: 1898 142 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA occasional lesser koodoo or two, a little lot of impala, some- times, at one particular point, and rarely an odd bushbuck, are all that is seen, without counting the diminutive paa, and now and again a rhino, giraffe, or hippo spoor. Formerly there was a sprinkling of buffalo in small herds; but these the cattle plague swept off The other game, however, was always scarce. It is easy to say that the conditions are not suited to its requirements—too much scrub and too little grass—but one cannot help wondering why some species have not become SH ^' %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% '^^ /.:! ^iXfk o?^ VULTURINES AND DOG, adapted to the land. Here are great stretches of uninhabited bush country with a perennial river running through it, and hardly any animals, though plenty of birds and of ' fly' (tetse). On the Athi are three varieties of guinea-fowl. Towards the coast the small, delicate, little crested species, living in thick bush, is found—the tenderest of all on the table. In its middle course large flocks of the large and beautiful vulturine guinea-fowl are met with ; while higher up again comes the common horned kind. The second, though very wild and hard to get a shot at without a dog, becomes the veriest idiot when
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