166 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
CHAPTER VII 
GAME DISTRICTS AND ROUTES 
By F. J. JACKSON 
At particular seasons of the year there is a considerable 
migration of game beasts, and though all the lines of their 
migration are not ascertained, it is quite certain that great 
numbers work their way towards the coast between April 
and July; instinct in all probability impelling them in that 
direction, where the grass and all other vegetation are 
abundant. It would consequently be advisable for the sports- 
man to choose the time for his contemplated trip to a certain 
district when game is most likely to be plentiful there. 
Regard should also be had to a place suitable and convenient 
for head-quarters, where surplus baggage, trophies, &c., can 
be stored, and where food for the caravan is procurable. The 
Kilimanjaro district, with Taveta as a depdt, was at one time, 
and perhaps is still, one of the best game districts in East 
Africa. Here game of nearly every variety is to be found, with 
the exception of Kobus defassus, Kobus Kob, Jackson’s harte- 
beest, sable antelope, Damalis Senegalensis, and the oribi. 
Elephants, though they are numerous in the wet weather, are 
confined almost entirely to German territory, at the base of the 
mountain below Mochi and Kiboso, and it would be necessary 
to get a permit to shoot them, either from the German Com- 
missioner at Bagamoyo on the coast, or from the officer in 
charge of the district at Mochi. From about August to April 
the elephants are confined to the belts of dense forest on the 
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