Big Game Shooting 



also with a few, never more than two or three, 

 does in his company. 



In Somaliland they like thick bush and are 

 plentiful amongst the thorn trees and patches of 

 "hig" aloes on the lower slopes of the Golis 

 Mountains, as well as further south round Kirrit. 

 In East Africa they are rather more exclusive, 

 only, I think, being found round Kismayu, and 

 then near Teita and Kilimanjaro, going as far 

 north as Lake Magardie. 



They do not seem to bother themselves much 

 on being disturbed, as they stop and peer at one 

 from behind bushes and trees constantly, until 

 thoroughly alarmed, when they gallop off amid 

 the bushes and over the stones to some tune, 

 and go as if they meant keeping it up. I have 

 seen them in rather bigger herds in Somaliland, 

 but I am dealing now with East Africa. . 



Although Kilimanjaro cannot be anything like 

 shot over so much as other places, lesser kudu 

 are rare, and so one wonders what happens to 

 the calves, or whether they breed so prolifically 

 as other game. 



They are to be found sometimes out in the 

 open, under the shadow of a big tree at midday ; 

 but this is lucky. 



As a rule they feed in the plains (if there are 

 any) at night, and by eight o'clock in the morning 

 they are higher up in the cool. 



" Lesser kudu country " is a well-known term, 



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