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AT NYEMPS 



with fifty-two porters, two Askari, two Somal, and Bedue. I 

 will quote his own account of his adventures : 



' This time I bore north-west so as to reach the district in 

 which Joseph Thomson hunted elephants in 1883. In two 

 hours on the first afternoon we reached the swampy northern 

 end of the Guaso jSTyuki. I began badly, for I missed three 

 water-bucks, one after the other, and only brought down two 

 guinea-fowl. The next morning we wandered alongside of 

 the broad belt of rushes bounding Lake Baringo on the south 

 and south-east, halting at the base of the lowest of the broad 

 terraces rising up from the plain. There were quantities of 

 game about, but either on perfectly exposed patches or amongst 

 the rushes, so that stalking was quite out of the question. 

 Armed with the Paradox rifle only, I got nearer to the lake 

 itself in the afternoon, shot a big crocodile, and was about to 

 turn back when I came upon a pair of buffaloes just going off 

 through the waving rushes. 'Mj weapon was not suitable for 

 them ; so my attendant Mahommed Seiff ran off to camp for 

 my rifle, whilst I slowly followed the animals so as not to lose 

 sight of them. Mahommed soon came back with the rifle and 

 some of the men, and we proceeded to stalk the animals, but 

 with no result whatever, as they managed to make off. Later 

 I shot one rhinoceros and wounded another. 



' The next morning I sent Bedue and some other men who 

 had been with Thomson in 1883 to find a suitable place for a 

 camp in his elephant district, whilst 1 went further up the 

 brook to hunt. At four o'clock in the afternoon I returned to 

 camp, having secured one rhinoceros, one zebra, one Beisa 

 antelope, and three gazelle Grantii, the last-named in their 

 summer fur, which differs so much from that in which these 

 animals appear in the winter that I scarcely recognised them. 

 In summer their hair becomes much lighter, and black stripes 

 which are quite absent in the winter appear on the legs. 



