Wildebeest 



An old stray bull will often be found impressed 

 to do " sentry go " for other game. 



When they are disturbed they go off at a 

 lumbering gallop, whisking their tail round in 

 a circle, but they cover the ground to some 

 purpose. When wounded badly, and one gets 

 to close quarters, they will as often as not charge, 

 or try to, with a snort. 



They are as a rule distinctly shy brutes, but 

 I do not think they are very hard to stalk. 



I have found the Wildebeest on the Athi 

 Plains in small numbers. I fancy he wanders in 

 small herds in that district in the dry season in 

 search of water and green grass by the rivers. 

 I came across a very large herd indeed, of fifty 

 at least, on the Guaso Nyiro on the German 

 boundary, and then, with a distinct break, after- 

 wards under Kilimanjaro in the same large herds. 



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