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lose their heads if driven right out into the open. 

 Impala sometimes scatter when alarmed, and if the 

 herd is a big one, it is hard to tell where the buck 

 has gone. They always reunite afterwards. A buck 

 with does will usually but not invariably come last. 



Ten impala are allowed to be killed on a licence, 

 and it leaves a good margin. Six is enough really, 

 unless one sees exceptionally good heads afterwards. 

 Hartebeest are also limited to ten, though but few 

 sportsmen fortunately are filled with so great a 

 desire for their blood as was one gentleman. Shortly 

 after leaving Nairobi he killed his limit, though he 

 could not get near less plentiful and wilder species 

 of game. He put in a petition asking to be allowed 

 to kill ten more. This was, I believe, granted, 

 though he had to pay for them. When, however, 

 a week later, a second petition arrived, the authori- 

 ties began to be afraid that he would spend the 

 rest of his life murdering hartebeest, and sent back 

 a reply that he might kill an unlimited number, but 

 that in future the price of hartebeest would be raised 

 to R.1000 per head. No more petitions came in after 

 that! 



We moved camp after we had remained near this 

 muddy stream for a couple of days, and went on to 

 a river called the Sugari. I saw but little game 

 the first day out. Some " Tommy " mothers with 

 their dear little fawns made beautiful pictures. A 

 native caught one of these tiny creatures alive when 

 we were at Rumuruti and tried to sell it to us, but 



