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A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



on every year a stem and branches which is 

 annually burnt down. Sometimes a stem, ap- 

 parently ten years old, may be seen supporting 

 a trunk of only a few months' growth. 



From the top of the Nandi range I sent back 



Fig. 8. — Camp at Mkuyuni. 



the head of my first buck, a Jackson's Harte- 

 beest (Bubalis JacJcsoni) ; this was a young and 

 confiding animal, which allowed me to creep up 

 to within 100 yards behind an ant-hill and kill it 

 with a Winchester rifle. My ball hit just two 

 inches below the spine, a little in front of the 

 pelvis, and its hind-quarters were paralysed. I 



