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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 Kldama 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 



