Greater Kudu 



and as they deserve a place in my book, I put 

 them in this. 



They frequent high hills, nice and rocky, with 

 plenty of ravines and bush jungle. I always 

 tried, besides keeping my own eyes and those 

 of my shikari very wide open, to stalk any big 

 tree that came in my path on the Golis Mountains, 

 as they were so often disturbed from the shade 

 of one, till I discovered that tip. They can move 

 over bad mountain ground to some purpose, and 

 they possess great acuteness of smell and hearing. 



In Somaliland I used to keep a couple of natives 

 on the look-out for them one to keep one marked 

 down, and the other to bring in the news. A wild 

 man would rush into camp and say he had found 

 a monster, stretching his arms wide apart in his 

 endeavour to show me the length of its horns. 

 Alas ! many was the long, difficult, sweating trek 

 from which I returned, having found the animal 

 was a small one, before I discovered how beauti- 

 fully the native can lie. But then, all natives are 

 brought up to "exaggerate" as a fine art! On 

 giving news of a rhino the savage stretches out 

 an arm and invariably puts the palm of his other 

 hand into his armpit, saying with a beatific smile, 

 " So long ! " However ! 



One male kudu keeps company with, say, six 

 to eight females as a rule. A solitary bull is sure 

 to be a good one. They wander a fair amount 

 and are not "local." They drink every day, but 



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