IX AFRICA 



however, mcly reaches that weight ana 

 quently the bulb are the ones the banters arc after 

 and the ones that have gradually been so greatly 

 reduced in numbers. The elephant 

 roam the slopes of the mountains and often 

 long swinging trips out in the broad stretches of 

 the Gnas Xgishn Plateau to the east aid, in all a 

 district probably fifty miles wide by scrty or jc.tciii.1 

 naves long. 



The hunters who invade this section usuauv 

 march north from the railroad at a point near Yie- 



rd at a little 



called SergoL, and continue in that direction until 

 they reach the Xzoia River. XaturaDy, these 

 names win mean nothing to one not familiar with 

 the country, but perhaps by saying that the trip 

 means at least ten days of steady marching in a 

 remote and unsettled country, far from inuius of 

 supplies, I wfll be able to convey a faint idea of how 

 hard it is to reach the elephant country. 



Our purpose in making tins long trip of ten 

 weeks or more was to try for black-mailed lion on 

 the high plateau and to collect elephants for the 

 group that Mr. Akeley is preparing for the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Xatnral Historv. The wnan- 



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ment gave him a special permit to collect such ele- 

 phants as he would require, two cows, a calf, a 

 young bull, and, if possible, two large bulls. One 

 or more of these were to be killed by Colonel Boose* 

 velt and one by myself. It seemed promising tint 

 the cows, calf, and young bull could be got on 



