702 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



the tuft is much narrower than the white part of the tuft 

 and in a photograph is often quite invisible. Notwith- 

 standing the long-known character of the Grevy zebra in 

 Abyssinia, it has been known from the southern part of its 

 range in British East Africa only recently. Count Teleki, 

 during his journey of discovery of Lake Rudolf in 1888, was 

 the first sportsman to report its occurrence in British ter- 

 ritory. He met with it near the south end of Lake Rudolf 

 and along its eastern shore. William Astor Chanler was, 

 perhaps, the next sportsman to meet with it, in 1892, during 

 his exploration of the Northern Guaso Nyiro River and the 

 Lorian swamp. In 1898 A. H. Neumann, in his "Elephant 

 Hunting in East Equatorial Africa," gave the first careful 

 account of the habits and distribution of the species in 

 British East Africa. 



The big zebra, which our porters called kangani, was 

 only met with by us on the banks of the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro. The country was very dry, it being evident that no 

 rain had fallen for many months, and under the blazing 

 equatorial sun the grass had withered almost to straw, and 

 the dry acacias and wait-a-bit thorns were almost leafless. 

 The strange candelabra euphorbias, and trees covered by a 

 mass of green, fleshy thorns instead of leaves, seemed to 

 harmonize well with the landscape. The only water was in 

 the Northern Guaso Nyiro or an occasional rare stream 

 flowing into it. Back from the river were hills and buttes, 

 bordering the dry plains, which were sometimes bare and 

 sometimes covered with stretches of leafless thorn scrub. 

 It was bad galloping, for the ground was rotten in places, 

 and in other places covered with volcanic stones; but the 

 game ran as if unhampered by either the stones or the 

 rotten ground. 



On the bare, grassy plains, and more rarely where there 



