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chestnut laterally, and set off by a white patch at either 

 tear-duct. Though almost bare of hair, the huge blue- 

 grey body still showed the yellow vertical stripes, 

 though indistinctly. The horns were worn down with 

 age, and compared badly with those of the younger 

 bull, which taped 26 ins. straight. The latter animal 

 was of a bright fawn-colour, with yellow stripes. He 

 lacked the matted forehead and pendent dewlap, but 

 carried a heavy tuft of hair below the neck, which had 

 been almost worn off in the older bull. 



Estimated weights in the field are necessarily un- 

 certain, but this younger bull eland appeared to my 

 eye about ec[ual in bulk and weight to a big Norwegian 

 bull-elk. The latter animal I have actually ascertained 

 to scale 1,260 lbs. clean. Should this comparison be 

 correct, the patriarch, with his vastly bulkier frame, and 

 carrying far more fat, may have represented hard by a 

 ton dead- weight as he lay. 



The stalkinoj both of eland and Jackson's hartebeest 

 had been true stalking, by which I mean that the game 

 had not seen or suspected the presence of a hunter till 

 receiving the bullet. The approach to oryx, Coke's 

 and Neumann's hartebeest, wildebeest. Grant's gazelle, 

 zebra and other denizens of perfectly open plains is 

 hardly stalking in the strict sense. It is rather out- 

 ma noeuvrino- • but our ton one is defective in distinctive 

 terms in venery. Bush-stalking, as already mentioned, 

 is yet another art. 



After off- skin nino- the two eland bulls we were four 

 hours' march from camp, and, curiously, on our way 

 thither I saw four more elands. Ten days later I found 

 these antelopes in some numbers near Lake Elmenteita, 

 where there had been none two months before. Clearly 

 at this date (September) elands were moving into both 

 these districts. I should add that all I saw were com- 

 paratively young animals ; never again, that year, did I 

 see one of those heavy old patriarchs such as that whose 

 head now adorns my walls. 



Besides the game mentioned, we also met with the 



