Big Game Shooting 



tried the " Keddah " system, which is in vogue in 

 India, is because there is no market for them. 

 It would not be worth while to tame them in 

 India if the many rajahs did not buy elephants. 



Elephants wander over a vast extent of country 

 in the year, but natives ought to know roughly 

 where they are to be met with in the different 

 seasons. Wandorobo should certainly know. 

 Sometimes it is in thick forest, at others it will 

 be in thin scrub, and it is in this latter country 

 that they are easiest to get at ; and what is more 

 to the point, in such country it will be found less 

 difficult to distinguish the bulls from the cows. 



There is one well-known herd which frequents 

 Kibigori, near Lake Victoria, on the Uganda 

 Railway ; but they have been tremendously shot 

 at, and so are very wary, as well as extremely 

 vicious, in consequence. 



They live all the year round in the thick 

 bamboo forests on Kenia, Kilimanjaro, and the 

 Aberdare range. The almost inaccessible Lorian 

 swamp is said to be stiff with them, whilst there 

 are any number in the Lorogi mountains beyond 

 the Laikipia escarpment, and north toward 

 Mount Elgon over the Guas-Ngishu plateau; 

 but it is always rather hard to locate them. 



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