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the aid of the glasses. I carefully lo- 
cated a fine bull and then shot as I sup- 
posed at the one I had located. As I 
fired, the animals bolted, first away, then 
back toward me. They wheeled, ran 
halfway between the dead animal and 
One of our Wandorobo guides while hunting buffalo on 
the Mau plateau. 
raw hide wound spirally. 
defense 
myself and passing on some hundred 
yards to the right, wheeled about again 
and stood watching me, the bulls in the 
front lined up like soldiers, the calves 
and cows in the background. On com- 
The bow is protected by a sheath of 
This with a quiver of poisoned 
arrows, and a short sword are his weapons of offense and 
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ing up to the dead animal, I found much 
to my regret that I had shot a cow and 
not the bull I had picked out through 
the glasses. 
I returned to camp feeling that now at 
last from this herd living apparently 
in the open, we should have rel- 
atively little difficulty in com- 
pleting our series of specimens. 
On the following morning much 
to our disappointment, our first 
climpse of the herd was just as 
it disappeared in the thorn bush 
along the banks of the river. 
We put in nearly a week of hard 
work to complete the series. 
During those seven days of 
continual hunting, that herd 
which had been indifferent and 
unsuspecting at the beginning 
became cautious, vigilant and 
aggressive. For instance, on one 
occasion near the close of the 
week, after having spent the day 
trying to locate the herd, I sud- 
denly came face to face with 
them just at the edge of the bush 
at night on my way back to 
camp. They were tearing along 
at a good pace, apparently hav- 
ing been alarmed. I stepped to 
one side and crouched in the low 
grass while they passed me at 
twenty-five or thirty yards in a 
cloud of dust. Even had I been 
able to pick out desirable speci- 
mens at this time I should have 
been afraid to shoot for fear of 
getting into difficulties when 
they had located my position. I 
turned and followed them rap- 
idly as they sped away over the 
hard ground until the noise of their 
stampede suddenly stopped. I then de- 
cided that it was best to get to some 
point of vantage and await further de- 
velopments. I climbed an acacia tree 
