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generally are, with its sudden starts and grunts. Finally, 

 there was a young Tommy buck and a Grant's gazelle doe, 

 both of which were on good terms with every one and 

 needed astonishingly little looking after to prevent their 

 straying. When I was returning to the house on the morn- 

 ing I killed the rhinoceros, I met the string of porters and 

 the ox wagon just after they had left the gate on their way 

 to the carcass. The Grant doe had been attracted by the 

 departure, and was following immediately behind the last 

 porter; a wild-looking Masai warrior, to whom, as I learned, 

 the especial care of the gazelle had been intrusted for that 

 day, was running as hard as he could after her from the 

 gate; when he overtook her he ran in between her and the 

 rearmost porter, and headed her for the farm gate, utter- 

 ing what sounded like wild war-cries and brandishing his 

 spear. They formed a really absurd couple, the little doe 

 slowly and decorously walking back to the farm, quite un- 

 moved by the clamor and threats, while her guardian, the 

 very image of what a savage warrior should look when on 

 the war-path, walked close behind, waving his spear and 

 uttering deep-toned shouts, with what seemed a ludicrous 

 disproportion of effort to the result needed. 



Antelopes speedily become very tame and recognize 

 clearly their friends. Leslie Tarlton's brother was keeping 

 a couple of young kongoni and a partly grown Grant on 

 his farm just outside Nairobi. (The game comes right to 

 the outskirts of Nairobi; one morning Kermit walked out 

 from the McMillans' town-house, where we were stay- 

 ing, in company with Percival, the game ranger, and got 

 photographs of zebras, kongoni, and Kavirondo cranes; 

 and a leopard sometimes came up through the garden on to 



