THE LARGER EAST AFRICAN ANTELOPES 



district. Another place where the kudu may be found, 

 and where he is allowed to be shot at present, each sports- 

 man being licensed one bull kudu, is the vicinity of the 

 Kiu and Sultan Hamud stations on the Uganda Railroad. 

 There he is sometimes found among the undulating, park- 

 like, wooded hills and the dense jungle of mimosa and 

 thorn trees. He is, however, very seldom obtained in this 

 part of the country, for he is exceedingly shy and difficult 

 to stalk, and seems to have learned, like the gnu, that if 

 he returns into the nearby southern game preserve, he is 

 safe from the hunters' persecution. 



After many hours of tracking two kudus in these re- 

 gions I once finally succeeded in getting up to the animals 

 late in the afternoon. The day had been very hot and the 

 wind rather uncertain, but after the noon hours a steady 

 southeast breeze sprang up, which made it more easy to 

 gain on the animals. It had rained quite hard in the morn- 

 ing, so that the clearly visible imprints of the hoofs made 

 tracking comparatively easy, although for hours it seemed 

 impossible to catch a glimpse of either of them. Finally, 

 when we were almost completely exhausted, I, all of a 

 sudden, obtained a perfect view of the pair, as I emerged 

 from behind a clump of thick mimosa trees. There they 

 stood, not one hundred yards away, both evidently listening 

 intently, and standing on a small open space between dense 

 bushes on either side. Unfortunately they were too much 

 in the shade to be " snap shot " from where I stood. To 

 my utter disappointment the pair consisted of a young bull 

 with only half-grown horns, and a fawn. Although I had 

 never shot a kudu before, I felt that I did not want to dis- 

 turb the peace of this pair. After having admired the 



