Buffaloes and Crocodiles 



the face of the world in millions, everything else must 

 give way, fast or slowly, to the higher merciless law. 



Few indeed are the buffaloes that remain in the parts 

 of the Masai-Nyika that are known to me. In the Pan- 

 gani marshes I know a herd of a few solitary old bulls. 

 In the neighbourhood of Lake Manjara there is another. 

 Near Nguruman a small number may be found. On the 



TOWARDS KVKMNC (1KKAT FLOCKS OF MARABOUS ASSFMKLKI) ON THE 



high plateau of Mau, in British East Africa, I sighted 

 five heads, and a few others in the Njiri marshes. Here 

 and there a few other small herds may make their haunts. 

 In the whole of northern German East Africa these are 

 all that remain of the former abundance. 



But wherever these scanty remnants are found they are 

 mercilessly hunted. A European known to me killed five 

 in one day, as he managed to find them close together. 



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