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the country as park-like and abounding with kob and harte- 

 beest. There was also much old spoor of elephant, hippo, 



IN IBI MARKET 



giraffe and buffalo, but these animals the natives told him 

 would not come there again till the grass had started growing 

 with the rains. He managed to secure a magnificent water- 

 buck with record horns of 29f in. The kob in this part also 

 carry remarkably fine horns, and it is not unusual to get 

 them measuring 20 in. On this expedition Gosling did 

 many long stalks after Senegal hartebeest, which were diffi- 

 cult to get a clear sight of owing to the thickness of the bush, 



