CHAPTER XXV. 



A PROFITABLE HUNTING TRIP. 



A Most Profitable Hunting Trip — Natural History Mus- 

 eums IN New York and California Enriched by Roose- 

 velt Trophies of the Chase — An Exhibition of Lion 

 Slaying by Native Warriors — A Welcome Reunion — 

 Preparations for Journey Down the Nile. 



r^URING the hunting on the Guaso Nguisho plateau, Colonel 

 -^-^ Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, in company with Carl E. 

 Akeley, the African explorer, killed four elephants for the American 

 Museum of Natural History at New York. Colonel Roosevelt 

 decided to give one of the elephants to the University of California. 



The party took many other trophies. These include five horned 

 giraffes, a leopard, a roan hush buck, a Jackson's hartebeest, an 

 ourebi, a singing topi, a bohor and a kob. 



The kob, or Sing-Sing, is a large animal, equalling the common 

 stag in dimensions. The horns of the adult male are lyre-shaped, 

 and covered wath rings. The general color of this animal is a pale 

 brown, the entire under surface and inner faces of the limbs being 

 white. There is no mane, and the tail is rather long and covered 

 with hair. 



The Bohar is also an East African antelope. Its full name is 

 Ceroica probohar. It belongs to the riet-bok family. 



The Ourebi is another of the many antelopes which inhabit 

 southeastern Africa. For the following graphic description of its 

 appearance and habits the author is indebted to the kindness of 

 Captain Drayson : 



" Whilst many animals of the antelope kind fly from the pres- 

 ence of man, and do not approach within a distance of many 

 miles of his residence, there are some few which do not 

 appear to have this great dread of him, but which adhere to particu- 



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