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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



taken advantage of. In dense bush, stalking is often unsatis- 

 factory and mere chance-work, as it is very difficult to avoid 

 making a noise in getting through it, and disturbing the game 

 before seeing it. Perhaps the prettiest, and often the easiest, 

 stalking is done in park-like country, where there are both big 

 trees, ant-heaps, and bushes dotted about, as well as grass 

 some 1 8 inches high, to afford shelter to the stalker. In this 

 district game is most abundant from September, when the 



Easy stalking country 



young grass is just beginning to shoot after being burnt, to 

 May, when it is long, coarse, and dry. 



The Kapite plains to the west and the Athi plains to the 

 north-west of the Ukambani hills, with Machako's as head- 

 quarters, form another grand country with regard to the quantity 

 of game in it, though it does not afford quite such a variety 

 as the Kilimanjaro district ; and as the game is almost entirely 

 confined to the vast, undulating, open, grassy plains, stalking 



