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north pole. I am consoled in thinking that my shot 

 must have inflicted more surprise than injury and 

 so I hope he has now fully recovered, wilder and 

 beastier than of yore. 



My last shot in Africa, the day before leaving 

 for the coast, was at a wildebeest an hour or so out 

 of Nairobi. This time I missed entirely and repeat- 

 edly and the wildebeest remains unscathed to roam 



Wildebeest With the White Man Only Eight Miles Away 



the broad plains of the Athi until some better or 

 luckier shot passes his way. If I have anything on 

 my conscience, it is certainly not the remorse of 

 having reduced the supply of wildebeests. 



In our last few days' shooting out on the Athi 

 Plains we saw perhaps fifty or seventy-five of these 

 great bison-like animals. Their bodies and legs 

 and tails are slender and graceful, like those of a 

 horse, but the heads are heavy-featured, heavy- 

 horned and heavy-bearded. They are wild and 



