BRITISH EAST AFRICA 



and as there are no special animals to hunt, except the 

 magnificent greater kudu, which at present is wholly pro- 

 tected by the law, it is hardly worth while to take the risk 

 of hunting in this district, where, besides, the water is 

 poor and the heat great, for the land lies more than fif- 

 teen hundred feet lower than the surrounding plateaus. 



Another path follows the lovely Guaso Narok up- 

 stream for a couple of days more. It afterwards descends 

 into the upper Rift Valley, leading thence into the Nakuru 

 railroad station, from which the hunter in from seven to 

 eight hours may return to Nairobi by train which runs 

 three times a week. 



The third path, along which there is shooting all the 

 way, runs in a more southwesterly direction along the 

 northern slopes of the Aberdare Mountains. From here 

 it suddenly drops down to the swamplike lake Ol-Bolos- 

 sat, around which lions are often found. Thence the path 

 goes over the extreme northern part of the Naivasha pla- 

 teau, full of zebra and Jackson's hartebeest, and finally 

 ends at the Gilgil station, one hour and a half nearer by 

 railroad to Nairobi than Nakuru. 



The animals which the sportsman with ordinary luck 

 may bag on such a Kenia-Laikipia tour during four to 

 eight weeks are the following: Coke's hartebeest, zebra 

 (Burchell's and Grevey's), crocodile, hippo, buffalo, ele- 

 phant, eland, oryx (beisa), rhino, water buck, bush buck, 

 bongo, impalla, giraffe. Grant's and Thomson's gazelles, 

 wart hog, bush pig, lion, leopard, hyena, serval, jackal, colo- 

 bus monkey, baboon, Jackson's hartebeest, and a good 

 many smaller antelopes, as well as any amount of guinea 

 fowl, wild geese, partridges, and quail. This, together 



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