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belonging to the pointsman tied out as a bait? 

 The goat, however, appeared to have played the 

 game before; and, without bleating or making 

 any noise, curled itself up and went to sleep. 

 Not even a hyaena appeared, while I was again 

 devoured by mosquitoes. 

 IK This ended the hunt. I saw some eland at 

 F Simba, but the general shooting was not good. 

 From my camp I had some beautiful views of the 

 [peaks of Kilima-Njaro appearing through the 

 clouds; but the frequent heavy showers made 

 life very uncomfortable. I therefore accepted 

 defeat, and left the country. I had had some 

 good shooting, and had enjoyed myself very 

 much, but I had gone to Africa mainly to shoot 

 lions, and had not succeeded in doing so, and 

 the expedition was therefore to this extent 

 a failure. I was in the country altogether 

 for a little more than three months. Some 

 photographs taken by Mr. Bird in the course 

 of the expedition have been reproduced as 

 illustrations. 



While shooting round Lake Naivasha and in 

 Laikipia and at Elmenteita I shot very good speci- 

 mens of water-buck, and Grantii and Thomsonii 

 gazelles, and of the Nakuro or Neumann's hybrid 

 hartebeest, and Coke's hartebeest. I shot a 

 particularly good Thomsonii gazelle, the horns 

 measuring 15 1 inches. This was for a time the 

 second best head shot in East Africa, but has 

 now fallen to number six on the list in the last 

 edition of Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game- 

 I shot two others with horns which measure 

 145 and i4i inches. One of my Neumann's 



