THE HARTEBEEST AND ZEBRA 



have shot, that if there is any difference in size, the Jack- 

 son's hartebeest is the larger of the two. He is also rarer 

 than the other, and is only found in the northern and 

 western parts of the protectorate, where his favorite 

 haunts seem to be the upper Rift Valley, on the north- 

 western end of the Naivasha Plateau, and in the Nyando 

 Valley, to the east of Victoria Nyanza. 



The first specimen of Jackson's hartebeest that I was 

 fortunate in securing, was shot near Lake Hannington, 

 and had horns that were over twenty-four inches long. 

 This bull was by far the largest hartebeest that I killed 

 during my three expeditions to Africa. The animal 

 showed a most remarkable vitality. I discovered it one 

 day when we were returning to camp, after having had a 

 successful oryx hunt. The big bull stood alone on a little 

 opening on the sparsely wooded sides of a little hill. As 

 we were all tired from a long day's tramp, having been 

 continuously " on the go " from before five o'clock in the 

 morning, I did not care to go far out of my way, but fired 

 at the hartebeest at a distance of some two hundred and 

 fifty yards. As the gun cracked, he bounded off in big 

 leaps and soon disappeared among the trees. Sending 

 one of our trackers to the spot, where we had seen the 

 hartebeest, to examine whether there were any blood 

 marks on the ground, we sat down to rest for a few min- 

 utes. Suddenly we heard the tracker shouting: *' Damu 

 mingi, Bwana!" ("Much blood, sir!") 



Instantly we made for the place as quickly as we could, 

 thence following the blood tracks for over two hundred 

 yards. There, under a good-sized mimosa tree, lay the 

 big bull, dead. When we skinned him, we found that the 



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