-^ Stalking Expeditions in the Nyika 



some are quite in the open ; these hitter are used 

 chiefly when the sky is clouded and the temperature 

 cool. 



Now we have to be very careful with each step we 

 take. Every animal that gets up before us now — bush- 

 buck are tolerably frequent here — of course makes us 



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AN EARLY MORNING PHOTOGRAril i H W \ll.l;|;i i K, M l;l'ir^:_\- | iKi. 

 EUROPEAN RED DEER AT A DISTANCE 



Stand still with bated breath, until we are sure that it is 

 not a rhinoceros. 



When the undergrowth thins a little, we can proceed 

 with less caution. But we come aQfain and aoain. on 

 these mountain-ridges, upon thickets in which, as I 

 have said, any number ot rhinoceros-lairs are to 

 be found. The thickets are much grown over with 

 the woodbine [Clematis sunensis) — called by the Masai 

 " ol orianene " — whose feathery, white-flowering standards 



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