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themselves with, by taking shots at marks, and the native 
officer, who had been strolling about below the cliffs, fired a 
shot at an old male baboon and brought him down. I was in 
camp, and on hearing a hot fire going on, ran out, thinking we 
were attacked by raiders. It transpired that an Arab camel- 
f 
FEMALE PLATEAU GAZELLE (Gazella spekei). 
Length of horns on curve, average 9 inches. 
man had been sent up to the base of the cliffs to get the body 
of the baboon, and had been attacked by the whole troop from 
above, having to beat a hasty retreat under cover of the fire 
from several Sniders, and on my joining the men, another male 
fell to my Express, tumbling perpendicularly nearly fifty feet 
down the cliffs. When at last we secured the carcases, I was 
struck by their wonderfully human-like appearance, and have 
