Big Game Shooting 



pitch of organization this tribe arrived at. They 

 are still regularly drilled in companies sixty 

 strong, called "ip," in spite of the famine which 

 did a lot to wipe them off the face of the earth 

 some ten years ago. They are Natures gentle- 

 men, every one, if ever I saw one ! Well, the 

 various subdivisions of the one great tribe were 

 allotted different grazing grounds for their cattle 

 in the old days, and we are now passing through 

 one of the biggest of the lot, the Matambatu 

 country. Round Lanjoro Dis, which we shall 

 reach in another two or three marches, comes the 

 Kikinyuki district, and then in the Rift Valley, 

 behind Nairobi and the Ngongo Bagas Hills, lies 

 the Dogolani Plain. There are several others, 

 but we shall not enter their domains. 



If one marches on Donyo Erok so as just to 

 miss it there are good camping grounds, with 

 plenty of good water, at the very foot of the hill, 

 and on the way thither one might have seen, if 

 not shot, oryx callotis, eland, wildebeest, probably 

 singly, and Coke's hartebeest, zebra, Granti, 

 Thomsoni, and ostrich. This march is not 

 worth while wasting time over. On reaching 

 Donyo Erok, I should make a division in my 

 caravan. This is to save expense. I should 

 send back as large a proportion of porters as 

 possible, with their bare rations for the return 

 journey minus one days food — as they will get 

 that on their arrival at Taveta — to fetch up more 



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