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a tine waterbuck cow at a hundred yards, and a buck 

 tommy for the table at two hundred and fifty; and, after 

 missing a handsome black and white, red-billed and red- 

 legged jabiru, or saddle-billed stork, at a hundred and fifty 

 yards, as he stalked through the meadow after frogs, I cut 

 him down on the wing at a hundred and eighty, with the 



Creek on slopes of Kenia near first elephant camp 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



little Springfield rifle. The waterbuck spent the daytime 

 outside, but near the edge of, the papyrus; I found them 

 grazing or resting, in the open, at all times between early 

 morning and late afternoon. Some of them spent most of 

 the day in the papyrus, keeping to the watery trails made 

 by the hippos and by themselves; but this was not the 

 general habit, unless they had been persecuted. When 

 frightened they often ran into the papyrus, smashing the 

 dead reeds and splashing the water in their rush. They are 

 noble-looking antelope, with long, shaggy hair, and their 

 chosen haunts beside the lake were very attractive. Clumps 

 of thorn-trees and flowering bushes grew at the edge of 

 the tall papyrus here and there, and often formed a matted 



