450 THE LAND OF THE LION 
W ater-buck: 
The finest are to be had on the Nzoia. There, horns of 
over thirty inches are not uncommon. This antelope 
is one of the finest in East Africa, weighs about 600 pounds, 
has a habit of concealing himself when wounded, and 
should be approached with caution. A friend of mine 
was almost killed by a buck he had wounded and which 
he approached carelessly. The only hurt I received dur- 
ing thirteen months’ hunting was from a wounded water- 
buck. All African antelope fall quickly to a shot well for- 
ward in the shoulder. | 
Kongoni: 
Coke’s hartebeest and Jackson’s hartebeest are the 
two common kinds. Jackson’s hartebeest is much the 
finer of the two, weighing, I should say, almost one hun- 
dred pounds more than Coke’s. Jackson’s is common on 
the Nzoia and less frequently met with on the Aberdare and 
the Mau Escarpment. 
There is an established belief that kongoni are unus- 
ually hard to kill. I have not found this to be true. They 
will fall as promptly to a well-placed bullet, even if it be 
not bigger than the little .256 Mannlicher, as any other ante- 
lope. Most men shoot all game much too far back. I 
have been at times obliged to feed my sefari for many days 
together on kongoni meat. There was famine in the 
country and ‘‘potio” was unattainable. I have more than 
once killed ten with ten consecutive shots (in about a week). 
I once shot three with three shots. The nearest lay 
when I shot him 275 yards off, the farthest was 290 yards; 
a circle with a diameter of thirty yards contained all three. 
I always sat down for such long-range shooting, and invari- _ 
ably used a small telescope sight. 
Eland: 
Eland are now very much more plentiful than they were 
three years ago. Between the Athi and Theka rivers, north 
