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forest-hog. The only exception is the buffalo. Nyeri Hill itself is a habitat of the 

 lesser kudu and forest-hog, and they also occur, though it is not generally known, in 

 the bush-counlry to the north-east. 



Below the Kenya Forest about Embu, and between the River Dhiba and the 

 Embei country, is a large tract of very easy-going bush-country, in which the usual 

 game are found, buffalo, lion, and eland being especially numerous. Forest-hogs, 

 too, are found there, and the country in parts looks as if it ought to contain lesser 

 kudu, but I have searched in vain for their tracks ; neither have I been able to 

 obtain any information from natives about the animal, so I suppose that it does not 

 exist there. 



At the back of 01 Doinyo Sapuk and in Wakamba-land there is some bush- 

 country, park-like in parts and in others dense thorn. This country extends to 

 the north towards Punda Milia and Fort Hall, and to the east to the Tana, and 

 on both banks of the Athi River after it has taken its southward bend. In this 

 bush are giraffe, as well as the other bush animals. In the Ithanga Hills, which 

 form part of this section of bush-country, buffalo, eland, and bushbuck are very 

 numerous, and to the southward rhino swarm. Lion are fairly common all over 

 the country. 



In Wakamba-land, stretching away behind Machakos and Kitui, and lining both 

 banks of the Tana River, is an immense tract of bush, most of it thorn, and the 

 greater part little or wholly unknown. In the nearer parts giraffe and rhino are 

 common, and so are buffalo and lion. Farther southwards, as the country becomes 

 drier and less watered, the lesser kudu and oryx callotis may be found, and in the 

 little-known and unknown parts they are very numerous. Elephants also are found. 

 Elephants on the Lower Tana are growing scarcer, I believe, from being molested by 

 natives, the Somali and Galla tribes. South of the southern reserve is thin bush, 

 which, farther south, is superseded by the dense and impenetrable bush of the Taru. 

 In these parts are the lesser kudu and the fringe-eared oryx, which also occur in the 

 Kilimanjaro country towards Taveta, and the fringe-eared oryx is reported as plentiful 

 on the German border. Waller's gazelle is also found. Giraffe, too, appear to be 

 plentiful in most of the country. 



On the coast, between Malindi and Mombasa, and also near the mouth of the 

 Tana River, is a belt of very thick bush. In both these sections elephants may be 

 found at certain seasons, whilst buffalo are plentiful ; lions also are found. The bush 

 is so impenetrable, however, that these animals are most difficult to bag. 



On most of the islands of the Lamu Archipelago bushbuck occur, and on some 

 of them the lesser kudu is found. Inland from Gazi, south of Mombasa, some good 



