Hartebeest 



whilst Coke's are almost exactly like an inverted 

 bracket, ascending quite a short distance, bending 

 out at right angles, and then upwards and back- 

 wards. Jackson's carry the heaviest and longest 

 head of the three kinds. 



But they are as easily known by their heads as 

 by the district they are found in, which I am 

 taking in the same order as that which I stated, 

 and which may be said never to alter. 



Jackson's are found more north and across 

 Lake Victoria than the others, across the Mau 

 escarpment to Lake Baringo, and on Laikipia 

 now and then. Then comes Neumann's, north of 

 lakes Nakuru and Elementeita to Lake Solai in 

 the Rift Valley, and underneath the Aberdare 

 Range on the foot-hills from the north. Last of 

 all, from Naivasha to Kenia, and thence across 

 the Athi Plains to Kilimanjaro, and a little be- 

 yond, come the Coke's. 



I am leaving out a variety about which nothing 

 certain is known, that I have heard much about 

 the hybrid hartebeest, between Jackson's and 

 Coke's. It was supposed that all those that 1 

 locate as Neumann's round Elementeita were 

 hybrids. 



The Dutch gave them the name hartebeest, 

 being "hard beasts" to kill. They have great 

 vitality and will carry a lot of lead. I shot one 

 lately, with one bullet in the base of the neck, 

 and another in the lungs, and then had to give 



143 



