THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



with the fine cHmate and splendid water, makes the Kenia- 

 Laikipia trip one of the most enjoyable and profitable hunt- 

 ing excursions in the world. 



Another interesting tour can be made by going to the 

 Guas Ngishu plateau. This trip takes longer time and 

 costs a great deal more, and as these regions have lately 

 been partly settled with hundreds of South African Boers, 

 and much shot over by hunting parties, the game there is 

 becoming extremely wary and shy. One of the last hunt- 

 ers to return from this part of British East Africa in 1909 

 told me that he was greatly disappointed with the results 

 of his long and expensive safari. He had seen compara- 

 tively little game, and the elephants he encountered near 

 Mount Elgon were mostly cows and young bulls, not worth 

 shooting at. 



It was to this part of Africa that the famous hunter 

 Mr. F. C. Selous went on his last trip for the main pur- 

 pose of securing a large, black-maned lion. Unfortunately, 

 the great hunter did not even see a single lion during all 

 the weeks spent on the plateau, although he was able to 

 enrich his wonderful museum at Worpleston, not far from 

 London, with a few new species of antelopes. The climate 

 of the Guas Ngishu is delightful, the altitude ranging from 

 seven thousand to eight thousand feet, and the water is 

 plentiful and good. 



Another " Eldorado " for the big-game hunter in Brit- 

 ish East Africa are the Sotik and Loita plains, southwest 

 of Nairobi. They seemed to have been actually infested 

 by lions, which here feed leisurely on the countless herds 

 of zebra, hartebeest, and gnu that cover the plains and 

 the near-by hills, for during the last fifteen months over 



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