ii8 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



street attending to the affairs of the veldt. And as we 

 wandered farther up the valley, or along the bordering 

 ridges, we could see also in all directions down through 

 the trees other scattered animals who had not joined 

 the crowds in the valleys, hundreds and hundreds of 

 them. 



In a little open flat I found a Tommy (very few of 

 them here) with a fine head, so I dropped him at 157 

 yards. His horns proved to be fifteen and three 

 eighths inches (good ones in British East Africa about 

 thirteen inches). At the sound of the shot a lot of 

 game across the valley decided to come over and see us, 

 which they did, single file, and at a dignified pace. 

 They filed by, 400 to 500 yards away. There were 

 fifty-two eland (how's that for a sight?) accompanied 

 by about one hundred zebra, a few topi, and kongoni, 

 and eighteen wildebeeste. 



Then I returned to camp and rested until two 

 o 'clock, when I took a different direction over the hills, 

 and to my wonder found the game as continuously 

 abundant there. From the tops of the swells it was 

 particularly pretty to look over the tops of the trees to 

 the green flats like courts, and the wildebeeste grazing 

 on them. 



At this time we run across a great multitude of 

 game returning from a waterhole. The fact would be 

 evident enough to any one within earshot. A great 

 chorus of zebra barkings, persistent, shrill, over-power- 



