With 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 mv eve discovers beneath our look- 



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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 tine 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 

 eves, 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 How down to north 

 and east both soon to disappear in the desert at the 

 foot ot the mountain. I he 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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