Big Game Shooting 



There is little or none to be found on the way, 

 and even then the natives don't at all fancy 

 crossing in large numbers because of the shortage 

 of this necessity to existence. There is not 

 much game into the bargain up above, and one 

 will get better shooting back the same way. 



Once having reached the railway again, and 

 having had another try at Neumann's hartebeest, 

 near Nakuru, one might stop at Lake Elementeita 

 and go to Camp Mbaruk for impalah and water- 

 buck, by way of varying the monotony and 

 breaking the railway journey on the way back 

 to Nairobi. There are also Grant's and Thom- 

 son's gazelle in any quantity, but the whole place 

 has been so tremendously shot over, almost as 

 much as the Athi Plains, because it is so easy of 

 access, that I do not recommend it as a shooting- 

 ground. It is easy shooting, in a way, as the 

 game is at your front door, so to speak, but hard 

 because of their timidity and shyness on an open 

 plain, and after all one has probably got these 

 animals before, and will not want to waste time. 



Farther down the railway again, first-rate duck 

 and snipe shooting can be got on Lake Naivasha 

 if one cares to stop for it, as well as guinea-fowl 

 on Crescent Island, on the lake, if permission 

 can be obtained from the owner ; as well as a 

 problematical chance at a hippo from the afore- 

 said island, or at the western end of the lake. 

 There are, too, some very big Grant's gazelles 



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