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hard and their print is exactly like that of a horse, in fact the edge is so 
hard that it is almost possible at times to think they must be shod. The 
size of the ears is very remarkable, and but for the fact that they are rounded 
at the top, they would be very much like donkey’s ears. I noticed that all the 
game of Africa, including the hares, were provided with immense ears, and 
evidently depend on them a good deal ; this is only what might be expected 
in a close country,and we find the same thing in such Indian Deer as the 
Sambur which live in thick jungle, 
I first came across Grévy’s Zebra at. Hadanich on the Sug River, a branch 
of the Dachato, both rivers lie in the Abyssinian sphere of influence, which 
is the reason why this animal has not of late years been much shot by sports- 
men, They are not found much north of the eighth degree of latitude, 
I found them in herds of from three to'eight in number, I never saw 
more than this number in one herd, and I never found them away from the 
dense scrub jungle, which covers the whole of the low ranges which lie in 
this part. of the world between the various streams which run down to the 
Webbe river. There are in this tract of country occasional open glades, 
and in these, and in the cleared patches where travelling tribes of Somalis 
have had their Camps, the Zebras are to be found feeding in the early 
morning; they also come down, as far as I can gather every night, to the 
water to drink. The jungle is astony waste of dense thorny bushes, or of 
a small fruit-bearing shrub whose name I donot know, but which forms 
the chief staple of food for the rhinoceros, which are also found here, 
There is little other game except a few oryz and gerenouk, and of course 
hundreds of the little Sakharu antelope or Dikdik, of which I have seen 
over a hundred in a day, always in separate pairs, in fact,as Major Swayne 
says, they jump in places from almost every bush, certainly from every 
clump of bushes, 
However, to return to the Zebra, the best method of securing them is to 
search along the water for their tracks of the night before, and then to 
follow them up. If thisis done, andif one comes upon them in an open 
patch, and if one sees them there before they see you, they were I found 
very easy animals to get near, but if I happened to come up to them in the 
thick bush, as was more commonly the case, I found them quite the contrary, 
for the bush isso dense that one can get within 50 yards of any animal 
without seeing them, and then, as the ground is stony, and it is almost 
impossible to move absolutely silently, they of course hear you and away 
they go. On such occasions by throwing myself on the ground I could often 
see their legs under the bushes as they trotted off, which was not much good 
to me, but unless the ground was favourable and a lucky ravine gave one a 
better chance, one rarely saw anything else, and once disturbed 1 found 
them very distracting animals to follow. I got my first one very easily, 
getting a shot at it with a Mannlicher at about 250 yards, in an open space 
