ON SOME UNIDENTIFIED BEASTS 
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account is as follows : 4 1 was having lunch by a wooded 
stream, the Sirgoi River, just below Toulson’s farm, and after- 
wards went a little down-stream to fish, and to my surprise I 
walked right into the beast. It was evidently drinking and 
was just below me, only a yard or so away. I heard something 
going away and it shambled across the stream into the bush. 
The place was overgrown and I was without my specs, so could 
not get a very good view, but am certain that it was a beast I 
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Supposed Footprint op Strange Beast, 
Locality : Mile 74 Magadi Railway.: 
have never seen before. Thick, reddish-brown hair, with a 
slight streak of white down the hind quarters, rather long from 
hock to foot, rather bigger than a hyena, with largish ears. I 
did not see the head properly ; it did not seem to be a very 
heavily built animal. The annoying thing was that I had been 
past exactly the same place half an hour before with my gun 
after a duck, and when I returned I had nothing but a fishing- 
rod. I saw it about 12.80 midday — almost the same time that 
Mr. Kennet saw one at another place.’ 
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