GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



rain of the day before, very likely the elephant 

 passed during the night, and our fires turned him 

 from our direction again. 



Through the bamboo forest we followed up 

 many old elephant tracks, and some fairly fresh 

 ones, and we came to a stream which was an old 

 haunt of theirs, where they must have come to 

 water ; naturally it was pure and clear. The ele- 

 phants when wishing to climb down a slippery 

 bank just put their four feet together and slide 

 down ; later we saw a spot where an elephant had 

 been busy digging up earth. 



We rested on a mound just below the back of 

 Kinangop, the other side from the one to which we 

 were most accustomed ; it was a grand sight and 

 I made a sketch of its peaks. In the bamboos we 

 saw some cleverly contrived animal traps ; in one 

 was an impala, freshly caught, but dead, poor 

 beast. I took a photograph of it. 



The Wandorobo set the traps. The traps are 

 made by using a climbing plant as a rope noose, 

 kept open and in place between two split bamboos. 

 Then another piece of cord has a sharp little stick 

 tied at one end ; both of these are tied to a big 

 bamboo bent horizontally ; the two split bamboos 

 are fixed in the ground, and the cord with the 

 sharp stick fixed to the ground also, to keep the 

 other growing bamboo horizontal. All is kept in 

 place by pieces of bamboo covered with leaves, 



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