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FOREST AND STREAM 
July, 1921 
cast round to try to pick it up again 
under more favorable conditions. Even 
when everything is favorable, wind 
right, spoor fresh and country open 
enough to allow quiet going and a fair 
view, one is liable to be let down by 
numberless circumstances out of one’s 
control. I remember on one occasion, 
after following a herd of buffalo for 
some hours, I had just located them by 
hearing one bellow, and was preparing 
to stalk, when a honey guide appeared. 
The honey guide is a small bird which 
wants to lead you to a bee’s nest; it 
buttonholes you in the way and goes on 
saying “tit-tit-tit” till you consent to 
follow it. No sooner did this honey 
guide start talking to me than the herd 
of buffalo — recognizing that it must be 
in conversation with a human being- 
stampeded away and so ended that day’s 
sport. 
On another occasion I was following 
fresh elephant spoor when I ran into a 
herd of buffalo. I made a big detour to 
get round to the other side of the herd 
and give them my wind. Instead of 
stampeding off the way I had come they 
made a semi-circle round me until they 
reached the elephant spoor, followed 
that, and then waited for me. Every 
time I came up they galloped off down 
the track for a few hundred yards and 
then stopped. Just because I did not 
want a 'buffalo I could not shake them 
off anyhow, so finally I gave up and re- 
turned to camp. 
The Forest. 
T HE dense forests of Africa lie on 
the equator in the form of a tri- 
angle, with its apex on the east 
and its base on the west coast. These 
forests include isolated patches round 
such mountains as Kenya and Kilima- 
njaro, the forest clothing the escarp- 
ments in East Africa, of Budonga in 
Uganda and then broaden out into the 
great forests of the Ituri, the Congo and 
Southern Nigeria. 
The equatorial forests are so thick 
that no ray of sunshine reaches their 
floor; they consist of immense trees 
tied up with lianas and creepers, shelter- 
ing a thick undergrowth through which 
one must force a passage to proceed at 
all. Sometimes it is necessary to crawl 
on all fours. Such is the home of the 
okapi, the bongo, the giant, or forest 
hog, and a few kinds of dik dik. Ele- 
phants are also found, bearing long, thin 
tusks of what is technically known as 
“hard” ivory — less valuable than the 
“soft”, and thick Uganda type. Other 
denizens of the forest are the gorilla, 
chimpanzee, scaly manis, colobus and 
many varieties of monkey and long- 
beaked, fruit-eating birds. 
Hunting in the forest is as much more 
difficult than hunting in the bush, as the 
bush is more difficult than the plains. 
The game consists of the few varieties 
mentioned above; they are fairly scarce, 
very wary and require time and patience 
to outwit. The floor of the forest is 
carpeted with broken branches, and it 
is almost impossible to proceed without 
cracking of twigs and rustling of under- 
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