TO LAKE NAIVASHA 



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tive" tribes of the past, had really desired an answer to his 

 question, he would have done well to visit the homes of the 

 existing representatives of his "vigorous, primitive" ances- 

 tors, and to watch them feasting on blood and guts; while 

 as for the "pellucid and pure" feelings of his imaginary 

 primitive maiden, they were those of any meek, cowlike 

 creature who accepted marriage by purchase 

 or of convenience, as a matter of course. 



It was to me a perpetual source of won- 

 derment to notice the difference in the be- 

 havior of different individuals of the same 

 species, and in 

 the behavior of 

 the same indi- 

 vidual at differ- 

 ent times; as, for 

 example, in the 

 matter of wari- 

 ness, of the 

 times for going 

 to water, of the 

 times for resting, 

 and, as regards 

 dangerous game, 

 in the matter of 

 ferocity. Their very looks changed. At one moment the 

 sun would turn the zebras of a mixed herd white, and 

 the hartebeest straw-colored, so that the former could be 

 seen much farther off than the latter; and again the con- 

 ditions would be reversed when under the light the zebras 

 would show up gray, and the hartebeest as red as foxes. 



I had now killed almost all the specimens of the com- 

 mon game that the museum needed. However, we kept 

 the skin or skeleton of whatever we shot for meat. Now 

 and then, after a good stalk, I would get a boar with 

 unusually fine tusks, a big gazelle with unusually long 

 and graceful horns, or a fine old wildebeest bull, its horns 



Rhino shot from Salt-marsh camp, of the Keitloa 



type, with rear horn longer than front horn 



From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



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