ON AN EAST AFRICAN RANCH 



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saw most while at Kitanga and in the neighborhood, were 

 the zebra, wildebeest, hartebeest, Grant's gazelle, and 

 "tommies" or Thomson's gazelle; the zebra, and the 

 hartebeest, usually known by the Swahili name of kon- 

 goni, being by far the most plentiful. Then there were 

 impalla, mountain reedbuck, duiker, steinbuck, and dimin- 



Some of the naturalists' porters and skinners 

 From a photogrnph by J. A Men Luring 



utive dikdik. As we travelled and hunted we were hardly 

 ever out of sight of game; and on Pease's farm itself there 

 were many thousand head; and so there were on Slatter's. 

 If wealthy men who desire sport of the most varied and 

 interesting kind would purchase farms like these they could 

 get, for much less money, many times the interest and 

 enjoyment a deer-forest or grouse-moor can afford. 



The wildebeest or gnu were the shyest and least plenti- 

 ful, but in some ways the most interesting, because of the 

 queer streak of ferocious eccentricity evident in all their 

 actions. They were of all the animals those that were most 

 exclusively dwellers in the open, where there was neither 



