With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



death-shot in the car, and feeble signs of the life which is 

 still present are betrayed, as I expected, by this means. 



I ha\'e the skin of the head drawn off, but the horns 

 have to be detached, a task in which my axe and side-arms 

 do good service. At the least, an hour is required for the 

 detaching in correct style of the two long horns, which are 

 very thick at the base. The carriers load themselves anew 

 with the best bits of flesh, and then the march back to 

 camp is begun. This is reached some time after midnight ; 

 my pedometer testifies to some 72,000 paces — a good per- 

 formance in view of the climate, and only possible for those 

 who have been in the country some months. 



In the dawn of an October day I once more leave the 

 camp with a number of my men to ascend the higher tracts 

 of the Donje-Erok in its southerly division. For some 

 time I have been encamped at " Ngara na Lalla," in the 

 Masai district of Matumbato, We follow the brook for a 

 long time. Then a pathless road leads through the slowly 

 ascending foot-hills, intersected by dried-up torrent-beds. tO' 

 the foot of the hills which lie to the south of the gloomy 

 Donje-Erok. There are numerous tracks and traces of 

 animals which have watered at the brook during the night, 

 and now have retreated again into the wide desert. Little 

 herds of Grant's gazelles, Thomson's gazelles, and impalla 

 antelopes run off here and there ; and I also come upon 

 two or three pretty red-coloured antelopes. These are 

 steinbok [Raphiceros uciiiuanni), which, exactly match- 

 ing the red soil of the district in their colouring, let us 

 come up very close to them before, cutting many capers, 



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