-* Stalking- Expeditions in the Nyika 



some are quite in the open ; these latter are used 

 chiefly when the sky is clouded and the temperature 

 cool. 



Xow we have to be very careful with each step we 

 take. Every animal that gets up before us now bush- 

 buck are tolerably frequent here of course makes us 



AX EARLY MORNING PHOTOGRAPH OF WATERBUCK, CURIOUSLY LIKE 

 EUROPEAN RED DEER AT A DISTANCE 



stand still with bated breath, until we are sure that it is 

 not a rhinoceros. 



When the undergrowth thins a little, we can proceed 

 with less caution. But we come again and again, on 

 these mountain-ridges, upon thickets in which, as I 

 have said, any number of rhinoceros-lairs are to 

 be found. The thickets are much grown over with 

 the woodbine (Clemafis sunensis) called by the Masai 

 " ol orianene " whose feathery, white-flowering standards 



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