10 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



altitudes of Kilimanjaro. The results of this expedition 

 were published a few years later in book form. From 1899 

 to 1901, as special commissioner, he explored Uganda and 

 ascended Ruwenzori. Later he published two volumes cov- 

 ering his own explorations in Uganda, and summarizing the 

 work of others in the territory. This work is the most 

 elaborate general account of the natural history extant. 

 Johnston secured in the Uasin Gishu Plateau the first 

 specimens of the five-horned giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis 

 rothschildi, but this race was not distinguished until several 

 years later when the specimens collected by Powell-Cotton 

 led to the description of the race as new. The explorations 

 of Johnston brought to light many new species of the smaller 

 mammals, birds, and plants. 



The birth of British East Africa may be said to date 

 from 1888, at the time of the formation of the Imperial 

 British East Africa Company by royal charter from the 

 British Government. For the following seven years the 

 country was exploited commercially by the company. In 

 1895 the British Government took over the territory as a 

 protectorate and the work of constructing the Uganda Rail- 

 way was begun. During the tenure of the country by the 

 company the territory was often designated Ibea, a term 

 formed of the initials of the company. The word has since 

 come into use in zoology as a specific term for many of the 

 species discovered in the region. 



One of the men whose name is closely associated with 

 the early history and discovery of many of the game ani- 

 mals is the present governor of Uganda, Mr. F. J. Jackson. 

 He first entered the country in 1887 on a shooting trip in 

 the region about the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Soon after the 



