Big Game Shooting 



bow and some twenty arrows, and usually carry a 

 bit of rag carefully tied up, which contains some 

 strips of bark which they use for medicinal 

 purposes, somewhat in the same way as we 

 use quinine. They possess hardly any sheep or 

 cattle, and what they have are very carefully 

 herded and looked after, being their most 

 valuable commodity. In a country where a 

 sheep costs six or seven shillings, they would 

 infinitely prefer a present of two or three sheep 

 to the same number of sovereigns. I was lucky 

 enough to secure two Wandorobo hunters, who 

 accompanied me everywhere, and most useful 

 they were. 



They were half starved when I first met them, so 

 their hearts were won at once by the gift of some 

 ribs of a rhinoceros which had just been killed. 

 They said nothing, but took out their knives and 

 devoured the flesh raw on the spot, seizing a bit 

 of meat in their teeth and pulling at it, hacking 

 the while at the bone with their knives. My men 

 went into fits of laughter when they saw the 

 unconscious hunters, too busy with their bones to 

 notice my action, being transferred to the " picture 

 box." 



After having enjoyed the shooting round the 

 Guaso Nyiro for the best part of a month, the 

 time came for us to shift our camp some forty 

 miles away over a waterless desert to a range of 

 hills that could be made out in the dim distance, 



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