WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



the good old time a well - mounted hunter could ride 

 down a roan antelope after four miles, a water -buck 

 after three, an old bull koodoo after two miles, but 

 rarely ever a sable antelope and a gnu. All these 

 animals are hunted by the wild dog (Lycaon pictus). 



The wild dogs follow their prey by scent, not by their 

 tracks; they also attack them at sight. Big antelopes 

 they bring down by jumping at their bellies and tear- 

 ing out their entrails, as I had twice occasion to ob- 

 serve. 



Although their coat is many-colored, the wild dogs, 

 at a certain distance, look merely dark; they therefore 

 do not blend with their surroundings, but stand out 

 from them. Since they are fleet to escape and quick 

 to attack at sight, they are not so much in need of 

 keeping out of sight of their enemies or their prey. 



The Lycaon pictus is not numerous in the Masai dis- 

 tricts. Once I found, at noon, five dogs, another time 

 two resting in the shade of bushes. On another occa- 

 sion I happened to come upon a pack of them chasing 

 and catching a giraffe gazelle (Lithocramus walleri). 

 The rareness of the hunting-dog can easily be accounted 

 for by the comparative scarceness of the game. 



The wild honde is extraordinarily fierce in captivity, 

 prone to bite, and shows a marked dislike to our tame 

 dogs. I do not think that breeding the wild dog with 

 the tame will produce an animal which would be of 

 use to the hunter in tropical East Africa, however 



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