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specimens as trophies that accounts for the vast 

 preponderance of females in the various antelope 

 herds. The impalla is seen along the railroad and 

 in enormous numbers out along the Thika Thika 

 and Tana Rivers. There are also many up in the 

 Rift Valley and doubtless in other sections. From 

 my own experience and observation they were most 

 abundant on the Tana River. 



The wildebeest, or gnu, is found on the Athi 



Impalla Buck and Lady Friends 



Plains and northward along the Athi River and the 

 Thika Thika. One need never travel more than 

 two hours' drive or walk from Nairobi to see wilde- 

 beest, but it's a different thing to get them. You 

 would have to travel many hours, most likely, be- 

 fore you succeeded in bringing down a wildebeest. 

 My first shot in Africa was at a wildebeest at 

 three hundred yards. The bullet struck, but so did 

 the wildebeest. He struck out for northern Africa, 

 and when last seen was still headed earnestly for the 



