WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



of the wide Nyika. May they long continue to do so. 

 Among the gazelles we find two species resembling each 

 other and both marvellously adapted to their desert 

 homes. 



Imagine a diminutive giraffe, exceedingly slender and 

 graceful, of brownish color, provided with horns and 

 capable of standing, like a goat, on its hind legs. Thus 

 appears the Clarke gazelle (Ammordorcas clarkei) and 

 the Waller gazelle {Lithocranius walleri), the greenuk. 

 The former is not found outside of Somaliland, the lat- 

 ter is far more widely distributed. I observed it in the 

 remotest regions of the steppe of German East Africa. 

 The male is provided with pecuHarly shaped horns, the 

 female has none. 



I was the first, in 1896, to prove that the greenuk 

 does exist in German East Africa. The Waswahili 

 call it "njogga-njogga," the Masai "nanjad," and the 

 Wandorobbo "moile." 



Near Buiko, at the foot of the Pare Mountains, I once 

 noticed in the bright light of the setting sun, an ani- 

 mal rising on its hind legs to browse on the leaves of 

 a mimosa. I was greatly surprised at this sight, and 

 first thought the animal to be a giraffe. This optical 

 delusion is pardonable if one considers that it is not 

 easy to judge the distance and size of an object in the 

 clear atmosphere of the steppe. I soon realized that I 

 was mistaken and that I had before me the greenuk — 

 Waller gazelle — with which I was familiar from pictures 



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