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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. "/S 



short, we camped at Tula to collect whatever we could, but especially 

 giraffes. Two native sultans, Chanzi and Chaduma, joined forces 

 with us for a week, bringing with them about 500 natives. With 

 the help of these we had the most successful trip of the expedition. 

 Some of the boys from a mountain nearby had had some experience 

 in netting game. They make a coarse seine of native rope in sec- 

 tions about five feet high and 15 feet long. These were placed in 

 a row, until they made about 1,000 feet of native fence, one boy 

 hiding behind each section. The two lots of natives would double over 

 their ends and join in a circle about a mile in circumference, then 

 closing in toward the net. The object was to drive animals into 



Fig. 22. — Safari at rest. 



the net, but nine times out of ten they would break through the 

 line. Occasionally, however, they came straight on. One day a 

 herd of over 50 impalla was surrounded. This is the most graceful 

 antelope in Africa and a great leaper. Most of them sailed right over 

 the net, but five fell short and we got them all. Fortune was with us 

 as far as impalla were concerned, for it is one of the most delicate 

 animals to handle, and yet all of ours reached Boston alive and in 

 good condition. 



Wart-hogs were captured in the same way and a troop of four 

 were added to the collection. 



Besides rhinoceros, giraffe was one of our important desiderata. 

 They were abundant about Tula but not easy to catch because we 

 had no horses. We tried time after time to run them into the nets, 

 but a herd of giraffe runs in a file led by the biggest bull, and he 



