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242 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. 



varieties of the smaller class, of which Burchell's is the typical 

 species. I shot one, and carefully noted its characteristics, as 

 well as those of others which I had the opportunity of observing 

 at short range through my glasses ; but I unfortunately did 

 not bring home a skin, as I was disappointed in my expecta- 

 tion of procuring a specimen on my return journey. The 

 peculiarities, as noted in my diary, are : " Stripes black and 

 very broad, and ground colour white in all (both mares and 

 stallions)." They also struck me as being unusually small, 

 but in this I might be in error through my eye having become 

 accustomed to the upstanding form of the splendid animal 

 called Grevy's zebra. The measurements of the one I killed 

 (an adult male) were : height at withers, 3 feet 1 1 inches ; 

 length of head, i foot 9 inches ; ditto, from between ears to 

 root of tail (straight), 5 feet 7 inches ; tail (without tuft), 

 I foot 5^ inches; girth, 4 feet 10 inches (measured just after 

 death and entered on spot). I subsequently came to the 

 conclusion that these zebra did not differ from those of the 

 Burchell type which I met with elsewhere on this expedition 

 (though, as I had not kept the skin of the one just described, 

 I could not compare them side by side), for one which I shot 

 to the eastward of the Lorogis (also an adult male) measured 

 exactly the same in height. 



As I knew that Abdulla might be expected to arrive at 

 El Bogoi any day now, I wanted to be at hand. Accordingly, 

 on 19th October we started to return, crossing the mountains 

 by a different and much better route. We followed a good 

 elephant path, with a comparatively easy gradient, most of the 

 way to the top, and camped for the night close to Lesiat's old 

 kraal, near the eastern summit and overlooking the low country. 

 It was a pleasant march, through fine shady forest, in some 

 places the trees of considerable size. The juniper is chiefly 

 on the western slopes, but not, as a rule, very large. The 

 huts in this Ndorobo encampment in the forest (now deserted) 

 were thatched with leaves, as there was no grass there ; they 



