CHAPTER X 



MORE ARROLA AND A NEW ZEBRA 



My first day's hunting from Jana Nyeri was quite 

 successful. I left in the early morning on foot 

 towards the east, and we crossed the belt of bush or 

 forest which surrounded the water-hole by a kind of 

 tunnel about 4 feet high, and then passing across a 

 plain entered once more the thin thorn-scrub which 

 had that very desolate aspect so characteristic of 

 Jubaland. Giraffes' spoor was exceedingly common, 

 and I was not surprised soon afterwards to see one of 

 these animals, but it was already in full flight. By 

 and by I reached some more open bush, but no 

 game could be seen at all, and it was not until we 

 had passed another belt of extremely dense thorn- 

 scrub, and were about to enter a small open glade, 

 that the guide who was walking in front of me 

 suddenly crouched down, whispering " fer'ro," which 

 is the Somali word for zebra. And sure enough I 

 saw, on looking cautiously through a bush, a zebra 

 feeding" under some mimosa trees in the middle of a 

 small open plain. There was not a breath of wind, 

 so choosing that part of the bush towards which he 

 was slowly grazing, I crept in and out well within the 

 scrub, bent double, as it was too thick to walk, until 

 I had reached the place I had previously chosen ; 

 there I crept on hands and knees till I reached the 



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