. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . his exceptionally massive horns, whichmeasured 11|- ins. in basal circumference. After some manoeuvres with Chanlers reed bucks,fruitless as usual, we finally reached Eburu—sinceabandoned as a station. Bad as the lions had been lastnight at Elmenteita, they were as nothing compared withthe rats at Eburu to-nio;ht! No sooner were lio-hts out o O than the brutes were running in droves all over me,gnawing bags, boots, gun-cases, everything. I relitthe lamp, but it burnt out, and after the last matchhad been struck,
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . his exceptionally massive horns, whichmeasured 11|- ins. in basal circumference. After some manoeuvres with Chanlers reed bucks,fruitless as usual, we finally reached Eburu—sinceabandoned as a station. Bad as the lions had been lastnight at Elmenteita, they were as nothing compared withthe rats at Eburu to-nio;ht! No sooner were lio-hts out o O than the brutes were running in droves all over me,gnawing bags, boots, gun-cases, everything. I relitthe lamp, but it burnt out, and after the last matchhad been struck, they were free to eat even the bootsthat I hurled in a vain effort to keep them at brought relief, for then the early train(running thrice a week) came along and carried us offto Nairobi. 132 ON SAFARI During tlie four days I had secured the followingspecimens— Three Neumanns hartebeest, Sing-sing waterbuck, bull, as Grants gazelle, Thomsons gazelle, impala, wart-hog, tawny SING-SING WATERBUCK. CHAPTER XII ELMENTEITA (ll) IN FEBRUARY Early in February 1906, eighteen months after theevents described in the last chapter, we returned toElmenteita, our primary object being to set out thenceon an expedition among the Laikipia mountains, distantsome seventy or eighty miles to the northward. Beforestarting, however, we intended to spend a few days atthis point, renewing the happy memories of 1904. To all outward appearance, Elmenteita remainedprecisely as we had left it—the station, a tiny tin shantystanding utterly alone, a speck amidst boundless veld andprairie, across which runs that puny three-foot railway,a mere thread, over hill and dale. Great changes, never-theless, had occurred—changes that, as foreshadowingdevelopment in our new colony, one must regard withsatisfaction, though in the breast of sportsman andnaturalist a pang of regret will not be suppressed. The whol
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