12 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



visited in 1892 by an American sportsman, William Astor 

 Chanler, in company with Von Hphnel, who had accom- 

 panied Count Teleki some five years previously. Chanler 

 devoted his efforts to an exploration of the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro River, which he followed from the slopes of Mount 

 Kenia to its termination in a swamp in the midst of the 

 desert. He discovered the existence of the Lorian swamp 

 and considered it to be the termination of the river, and in- 

 dependent from the Tana River system as well as the sea. 

 During the explorations in the vicinity of Kenia he dis- 

 covered the small species of rock reedbuck, Oreodorcas 

 chanleriy which has been named for him. 



In 1894 another American, Doctor A. Donaldson Smith, 

 reached Lake Rudolf by a new route from the northeast, 

 and then continued southward across the Guaso Nyiro to 

 the Tana, and down the Tana to the sea. In addition to 

 big-game hunting he collected some twelve hundred speci- 

 mens of vertebrates, eighteen hundred insects, and three 

 hundred plants. Six years later, in 1900, this explorer made 

 another expedition from Somaliland west to the north end 

 of Lake Rudolf, and thence west to the Nile, at Fort 

 Berkeley, being the first white man to explore the region 

 between Rudolf and the Nile. 



In 1893 we find two Neumanns appearing in East Africa, 

 one, Arthur H. Neumann, an English elephant hunter, the 

 other, Oscar Neumann, a German naturalist. A. H. Neu- 

 mann journeyed inland from Mombasa following the old 

 caravan route to Kitui southeast of Mount Kenia. From 

 this point he continued north, skirting the eastern flank of 

 the great mountain, and then travelled northward to the 

 Lorogi and Mathew Ranges, the flanks of which he followed 



