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and run for a short distance ; they all return at 

 once, and then the bull appears ; they all drink 

 for five minutes or so, and then walk off fairly 

 fast, as if they distrusted everything. This last 

 is from personal observation at different places 

 for three or four days each, and so I think there 

 is something in it. 



They are " local " animals, provided they have 

 not been frightened and have not seen one, or 

 what is just as important to an eland's nerves, 

 have not heard a gun go off. Otherwise one 

 may hunt for them day after day, and never a 

 one will be seen. 



I have found them on Laikipia, but not in large 

 numbers, and there are a few on the Athi Plains ; 

 round Kilimanjaro, Arusha, and Erok they are 

 very plentiful ; and further north on the German 

 boundary in the Mara River district they simply 

 swarm — so it appears as if they are recovering 

 from having been decimated by the scourge of 

 rinderpest of ten years back. 



An average bull should measure thirty inches, 

 straight. 



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