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merely seen in bush, however near, may be quite erro- 

 neous ; still, I cannot identify this white-collared, slate- 

 blue dikdik with any of the descriptions or figures given 

 in the Booh of Antelopes} It is at least certain that 

 tivo species are found on these Baringo Plains. 



The Wandorobo guide just mentioned was rather 

 interesting. He had been lent to us by Archer, and 

 when he came to our camp was stark naked, possessing 

 nothing beyond a spear and a wire anklet. We gave 

 him a blanket ; but he never entered a tent, preferring 

 to coil himself up, dog-like, under some bush imme- 

 diately behind our tents. He kept apart from the 

 Swahili, and if they despised the wild savage, certainly 

 the sentiment was mutual. He made his own fire, 

 cooking scraps of meat and the bones he collected from 

 the difterent messes, from which he made marrow-soup. 

 But he was distinctly accpiisitive. Beginning with an 

 empty biscuit-tin, in which he stored rice and bits of 

 biltong, he gradually accumulated property. On our 

 return to Baringo he carried quite a big roll of " Ameri- 

 kani " (cotton canvas) containing we knew not wdiat, 

 but clearly full of something. Here, in Equatorial Africa, 

 one realises that " property " may truly be synonymous 

 with robbery I 



As a guide he proved a failure, partly owing to his 

 dread of bushy ground, wherein he ever suspected 

 rhino; but he displayed a marvellous instinct for leading 

 us to water in most unlikely spots. 



We were now in the Suk country, and occasionally 

 able to obtain milk, etc., from these friendly savages in 



^ The following gives in tabular form the approximate distribu- 

 tion of East-African dikdiks, and may be useful to sportsmen 

 shooting in that country — 



Species. Locality. 



Giinther's dikdik. Madoqua guentheri . Baringo. 

 Unknown ,, ., {?) ,, 



Cavendish's ,, ,, cavendishi . Elmenteita, Enderit, etc. 



Hinde's „ ,, hindei . . Simba, Makindu, etc. 



Kirk's ,, Xeotragus kirki . . Coast region only. 



