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 284 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. photographed it and measured it carefully. It was a cow, considerably smaller than the bull of the other day and the thinnest I had ever shot, though its horns did not seem as if it were extraordinarily old. Its front horn only measured 26^ inches, though, owing no
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 284 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. photographed it and measured it carefully. It was a cow, considerably smaller than the bull of the other day and the thinnest I had ever shot, though its horns did not seem as if it were extraordinarily old. Its front horn only measured 26^ inches, though, owing no doubt to the very small size of the animal itself, it looked much longer. The porters took meat in spite of its emaciation, while I cut off the horns and buried the skull, having avoided chopping the bone at all. Dead Rhinoceros Cow of the Small Variety {Rhinoceros biconiis). (From a Photograph liy the Author.) There was here much stunted bush, though not thick ; the country was very flat and the soil like dried mud, which it undoubtedly is, namely, lacustrine deposit ; and all along this part were many tall chimney-like ant-heaps. The usual kinds of game were observed, with more Waller's gazelle than I had seen anywhere. For a day or two past I had noticed that the lake water was getting fresher and at the same time less clear, and now it had lost its salt taste altogether and become muddy, looking quite red out to sea. This was of course caused by
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