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a hunting-dog, a single beast on eacli occasion. Grant's 

 gazelle plentiful, but of Thomson's we met with only 

 two or three. This is the limit of their northward 

 range, which is practically bounded by the equator. 

 None exist beyond Baringo.^ 



At this point we fell in with two natives, Wandorobo, 

 hunting by means of a donkey. They had fitted the 

 animal with a pair of wooden horns, and by crouching 

 behind, guiding him with a cord to his nose, approached 

 near enough, we were told, to kill hartebeests and even 

 such large game as elands with their poisoned arrows. 

 Their bows were primitive, and appeared very feeble. 

 They used them horizontally, held along the line of the 

 donkey's back. 



A curious incident befell while shooting from this 

 camp. I was stalking a little group of four Jackson's 

 hartebeests. Previous to starting on the stalk my 

 brother and I had noticed a single zebra standing fast 

 asleep on a grassy decline beyond. My first shot broke 

 the shoulder of the best bull, but before getting quite 

 beyond range the other three pulled up to gaze, a good 

 bull mounting an ant-heap. I tried the second barrel at 

 him, distance some 300 to 350 yards, and distinctly 

 heard the bullet tell. What was my surprise to see, on 

 jumping to my feet, that that bullet had struck, not the 

 hartebeest aimed at, but the unfortunate zebra 100 

 yards beyond, whose very existence I had forgotten, 

 and which was actually out of my sight at the moment 

 of firing. He must have been trotting away down the 

 slope when the errant ball struck just by the root of his 

 tail. The zebra was still struggling i7i extremis as we 

 rushed by in pursuit of the lamed hartel^eest, but it was 

 hours before we recovered the latter, and on our return 

 the zebra was dead. Our men, in consequence, refused 

 to eat the meat, not having been bled, which would 



^ The correctness of this was subsequently confirmed by our 

 experience on Lake Solai, further east and on the same line of 

 latitude. We saw but one Thomson's gazelle during our sojourn on 

 Solai, though they are plentiful a dozen miles southward. 



