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been a long hard hunt and our safari as 
well as ourselves were considerably the 
worse for wear. To shoot a half-dozen 
buffalo is a very simple matter and ought 
to be accomplished almost any day in 
British East Africa or Uganda, but to 
select a series of a half-dozen that will 
have the greatest possible scientific 
value by illustrating the development 
from babyhood to old age is quite a 
different matter. To the average sports- 
The young bull of the African buffalo group, with one of Mr. Akeley’s gun-boys. The photo- 
graph shows the character of the marsh vegetation 
man the one would be sport, the other 
hard labor. 
These buffalo of the Tana country, 
that we found on the plains and in the 
bush, apparently rarely or never go into 
the swamps, a fact not only confirmed 
by observation but also indicated by the 
condition of the hoofs. These are horny, 
round and smooth as a result of traveling 
on the hard and more or less stony 
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ground of the region. Whereas the 
tinga-tinga buffalo have lived in the 
swamp for years and spend practically 
no time on hard ground, hence the hoofs 
are long, sharp and unworn as a result 
of walking always in the soft mud and 
water. All this in spite of the fact that 
these two herds may actually come in 
contact at the edge of the swamp. Other 
herds living in forest country, which 
come out into the grasslands to feed at 
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night, always go back into the forest at 
daybreak. 
In Uganda where buffalo are recog- 
nized as a menace to life and are of no 
particular value except for food, they 
are officially treated as vermin and one 
may shoot as many as he will. Here 
the herds have increased to an enormous 
extent and because of the dense jungles 
and general inaccessibility of the coun- 
