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him. I sometimes had great difficulty in keeping tabs 

 on him at all through the heat haze. After great 

 difficulty got within 250 yards — and missed. A mile 

 farther took another chance at somewhere beween 

 200 and 300 yards and hit high in the flank. Missed 

 again, as he made off. A mile farther killed him with a 

 square shoulder shot at 277 yards. 



Much relieved, we took the meat and trophy, found 

 the trail of the safari, and set out to follow it. This 

 led us across the plains, through a low pass and into a 

 pocket of the hills just like some of the little hot valleys 

 in our coast range. A dry wash ran through it, but 

 some holes contained enough water for our purposes. 

 The mountains round about were covered with chap- 

 arral. 



In this, rather to our surprise, we saw zebra. In 

 fact later (these notes are being written August 8th) 

 we found a great deal of plains game in the brush hills, 

 driven from the plains by the increase of Masai cattle. 

 Cuninghame is inclined to think that the future of the 

 plains game in British East Africa is just this, and not 

 extermination. If so, good-bye the millionaire safari! 

 To hunt game, no matter how abundant, on these hills 

 and in this brush would require altogether too much 

 work and skill for those "softlings." 



Incidentally, the zebra, so conspicuous on the plains, 

 is very hard to make out, even near-to, in the brush. 

 This is in thin brush where the conceahng quality of 



