AFTER ORYX AND ELAND— BARINGO 11 



befallen. He had come across a gigantic pig which 

 dwarfed the big wart-hogs (animals we saw daily) into 

 comparative insignificance. Wo had neither of us at 

 that time heard of the existence of the giant forest- 

 hog {Hylochoerus) recently discovered in these regions, 

 and described, from some fragments of skin and bone, 

 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1904, 



KOKI BrSTAIU). 



Male : weight ■251bs., span 8 ft., has head like a bittern. 



p. 193, though I now remembered having hastily glanced 

 throu2;h these a nioiit or two before sailing;. Whether the 

 animal seen here was Hylochoerus, or otherwise, remains 

 unproven ; but the following is my brother's narrative — 

 " It was on the Mugitani River that I had my first 

 sight of elands. Leaving camp at daybreak, we had 

 traversed the scattered forest that covers the bush- 

 tangled, boulder-strewn hills above that river, and come 

 upon a level plain, a mile across, stretching to the foot- 

 hills of Laikipia beyond. Upon this plain was a herd of 



