NOTE ON GREVY’S ZEBRA, 653 
where a herd of three was feeding. I might have easily shot another, as one 
of them stood stupidly looking at me from about 150 yards off, but it was not 
afull grown one sol letit go. It took me however a long time to get the 
second specimen I wanted, on two occasions. I followed a herd from 6 o'clock 
in the morning till 3in the afternoon without ever getting a shot, although 
I was over and over again within a hundred yards of them, It is tiring 
work tracking in such a close country, and at 7° of latitude the thermometer 
stands pretty high, and I was very glad when one morning after several 
blank days I came across a herd of eight feeding in the open, and after an 
easy Stalk got within eighty yards and secured my second specimen, No one 
I hope would want to shoot more than two of them, They are beautiful 
animals, and I shall not soon forget the spectacle presented by a splendid 
stallion which jumped up out of some long grass close in front of us one 
day when we were tracking rhino, and galloped away with the sun shining 
on its glossy back and sides, They always seemed, as of course all wild 
animals do, to bein the very pink of perfection, and both of those I shot were 
extremely fat. This fat was much appreciated by the Somalis, who however 
had views about eating their flesh, saying it was heating.* I have with me a 
skin and also photograph of the last Zebra I shot, and I can honestly say that 
I was not disappointed in my Zebra when I did come across him on his native 
heath, I only hope you will be able to say the same of my account of him, 
* N. B.—Most flesh would be heating if eaten in the quantities which Somalis indulge in i 
personally I found it very palatable. 
