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sport, our bag including rhino, hippo, waterbuck, 
reedbuck, hartebeeste, wildebeeste, ostrich, im- 
pala, oryx, roan antelope, etc. ; but for the present 
I must confine myself to a short account of how I 
ROAN ANTELOPE. 
was lucky enough to shoot a specimen of an 
entirely new race of eland. 
Our party of five, including one lady who rode 
and shot equally straight, left the Eldama Ravine 
on January 22, and trekked off in an easterly 
direction across the Laikipia Plateau. As the trail 
which we were to take was very little known and 
