A BUFFALO HUNT BY THE KAMITI 153 



safari, and Cuninghame and I rode out to get it. Within 

 half a mile we came upon big herds both of hartebeest and 

 zebra. They stood to give me long-range shots at about 

 three hundred yards. I wounded a zebra, after which 

 Cuninghame rode. While he was off, I killed first a zebra 



Wildebeest bull shot by Kermit Roosevelt at Kamiti 

 Front a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



and then a hartebeest, and shortly afterward a cloud of dust 

 announced that Cuninghame was bringing a herd of game 

 toward me. I knelt motionless, and the long files of red- 

 coated hartebeest and brilliantly striped zebra came gallop- 

 ing past. They were quite a distance off, but I had time 

 for several shots at each animal I selected, and I dropped 

 one more zebra and one more hartebeest, in addition, I 



