Big Game Shooting 



unmistakable mound, a landmark on the rolling 

 plain, which stretched as far as the lake on the 

 northern side of the railway, under the forest-clad 

 precipices of the Nandi Hills. As regards walk- 

 ing the country is rather difficult, as in the bottoms 

 between the rises, narrow, muddy, bushed-up 

 rivulets, with steep banks, run towards the 

 " Cloaca Maxima " of the district, the Nyando 

 River ; and the steaming heat makes any exertion 

 rather trying. The place is rather like a huge 

 apple-garden, as the thorn trees in this part of the 

 world are about the same size as apple trees and 

 very much like them in appearance, there being 

 no thick jungle of them. For game, one ought 

 to make for this mound, and once on the top use 

 one's glasses to find roan, topi, or Jackson. 



The roan, I fancy, rather affect a low range of 

 hills to one's right front of the line one has been 

 marching on, but after having gone some eight 

 miles or so leave them alone, if none have been 

 seen up till then, till next morning, and have 

 another try then. Devote your energies, making 

 a wide sweep towards the railway on your return 

 journey, to topi, which you have not met yet. 

 One or the other you are bound to get in the first 

 day's outing, and, as I say, both can be guaranteed 

 inside of a week. 



This may be called shooting at one's front door 

 with a vengeance, as both these animals being 

 met with so close to partial civilization, with none 



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