A HUNTER'S CAMP-FIRES 



Fuguet returned to camp toward dusk, reporting that after 

 following the wounded zebra for hours he made a cautious 

 stalk to where he could see what he thought was the animal 

 partially concealed behind bushes. On shooting it he dis- 

 covered, to his disgust, that it was a very sick and mangy Bur- 

 chell's zebra instead of the one he had been following. It was 

 surprising that among such quantities of game we seldom saw 

 or shot sickly or diseased animals. We shot animals which 

 had been gored in fights with their own kind, or bore marks 

 from attacks by the carnivora, but I imagine that the beasts 

 of prey which followed the herds of game killed the weak and 

 sickly before we had a chance. Several miles from camp 

 Fuguet had killed an eland out of a large herd of these antelopes 

 which he had discovered resting near the pinnacle. The next 

 morning we marched to our main camp, and from there up the 

 south bank of the Guaso Nyiro to new hunting-grounds. 



We were sorry to leave the country in the vicinity of palm- 

 bordered Guaso Maru, which for variety and numbers of game 

 surpassed any portion of British East Africa we visited. In 

 the vicinity of this stream we either saw or noticed signs of the 

 following mammals: Green monkey, a large brown mongoose, 

 rock-baboon, hyrax, porcupine, jackal, spotted hyena, leopard, 

 lion, two species of dik-dik and several other small antelopes, 

 Grant's gazelle, gerenuk, impala, oryx, waterbuck, eland, 

 Burchell's zebra, Grevy's zebra, giraffe, buffalo, and rhinoceros. 

 Within several days' march from this camp were: Guereza 

 monkey, serval, hunting-dog, wart-hog, duikerbuck, klip- 

 springer, bushbuck, Thomson's gazelle, Jackson's hartebeest, 

 lesser kudu, hippo, and elephant. Our combined bag during 

 the sixteen days we travelled and hunted in the vicinity of the 

 Guaso Maru consisted of a dik-dik, an impala, an ostrich, a 

 waterbuck, eight Grant's gazelles, six gerenuk, four oryx, two 

 Burchell's zebras, three Grevy's zebras, a giraffe, an eland, and 

 two rhinoceroses. 



