AYith Flashlight and Rifle -* 



A brace, consisting of a buck and a hind, adds two 

 splendid specimens to my collection. Scarcely a single 

 European museum has hitherto been able to boast of the 

 possession of one of these antelopes, though in certain 

 high-lying parts of the East African mountain-country 

 they are by no means uncommon. Again I detach two 

 carriers from my caravan for the transport of the game. 

 With the others I now proceed south, in the direction of 

 the highest peak of the mountain-chain. 



After half an hour my eye discovers beneath our look- 

 out, in a depression of the valley, some living creatures 

 standing out plainly from the grassy ground, and I soon 

 recognise them as elands ; but these fine antelopes 

 would take me too much out of my way. So we go 

 forward, often coming again upon klipspringers and 

 mountain-reedbuck ; and in one of the valleys that we 

 scramble through we perceive for an instant two fugitive 

 bushbuck among the thickets. 



As soon as we have obtained a view-point on one 

 of the commanding, lofty, naked, rocky ridges, we see 

 the Donje-Erok's own ridges stretching out before our 

 eyes, falling steeply towards the velt on the south, but 

 in the north-west descending in a series of gradually lower 

 hills, furrowed all over with valleys, and with many 

 well-wooded heights. Two streams flow down to north 

 and east both soon to disappear in the desert at the 

 foot of the mountain. The traveller must clamber over 

 the mountains for weeks before he can get any sort of 

 idea of their actual conformation. 



As, following the mountain-ridges, we stride through 



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