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fairly plentiful, such as snipe, quail, guinea-fowl, pigeon and an 
occasional francolin. 
Division 2. — The swamps surrounding the Lake and the 
mouths of the various rivers such as the Yala and Nzoia, includ- 
ing the larger rivers themselves — these hold a variety of 
animals, such as hippopotami, situtunga, otter, crocodile, and 
such birds as egret, duck and geese. 
Division 3. — The hills along the Nandi Escarpment, the 
valley of the Lusumu between these hills, the Nandi Escarp- 
ment, and the country from the Nandi Plateau to Elgon, all 
along the eastern boundary of the North Kavirondo district. 
Included in this division is Mount Elgon and its slopes. There 
are two large forests partly in this division, the fauna of which 
is fairly distinctive, viz. Kakamega and Elgon. The hills are 
all covered with small trees, and the grass is three to four feet 
long. The greater majority of the game inhabit this third 
division of the district towards Mount Elgon and north of the 
Nzoia ; on the eastern side it becomes plentiful. The head of 
game is doubtless maintained by migration and stragglers 
from the uninhabited country to the north-east of the Nyanza 
Province and north of the Uasin Gishu. 
The natives inhabiting the northern and eastern portion of 
the North Kavirondo district consist of the Nyarusi and cave- 
dwellers — Kitosh people (Bantu who circumcise), Tatzoni, and 
Uasin Gishu, Masai, who appear to have a good many Nandi 
living with them. 
All these tribes possess and use bows and arrows and spears 
for hunting game, and are often assisted by their pariah dogs. 
They dig an extensive and elaborate system of pit-falls, often 
extending for over a mile in a curve, with a pit every few feet. 
Eor some reason these pits are now falling into disuse, but 
formerly they must have accounted for many beasts. They 
are very cunningly situated in the exact place where an animal 
would turn aside to avoid a bush — in fact so well situated are 
they even now, when the covering has disappeared, that 
on riding across country without following a native path the 
traveller’s mule or one of his boys will suddenly vanish, and, 
in the case of an animal, be extricated only with difficulty. 
The Bantu natives, inhabiting the first division of these 
