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Office. The man who actually killed it was a Nandi living 
in Kericho and temporarily acting as Office Interpreter. He 
informed me that very early in the morning, while still in his 
hut he heard a great deal of noise outside and cries of ‘ Nyama.’ 
On going out of the hut he was apparently confronted by 
this beast almost in his own doorway. He immediately returned 
to get his sword out of the house. On coming out the bongo 
made a butt at him and he hit it across the horns. As it was 
making another butt he stabbed it with the sword in the neck, 
and when it fell down numerous other natives finished it with 
their spears. As far as I could gather the animal came from 
the direction of the Reserve, which seems extraordinary as 
there is little or none of that dense forest with which one 
usually associates the bongo, except just in scattered patches 
along the banks of the streams. The horns had been broken 
off short long before, but the skin is a good one and well marked, 
though it has a number of spear-holes in it. Unfortunately 
the natives did not realise what sort of an animal they had 
got, with the result that the hide and head have been spoiled 
as trophies. Meat was their sole object, and the condition 
the animal was in after a large number of natives had been 
at it for several hours can be easily imagined. The head was 
cut off in a very unprofessional manner, only one hoof has 
been retrieved, and most of the tail is missing. The natives 
whom I asked did not seem to have a name for it and stated 
they had never seen another specimen. 
STONE AXE 
By C. W. Hobley 
Two photographs are reproduced of a typical Neolithic axe 
found at Eldama Ravine Station by Major C. Ross, D.S.O., 
in February 1918. It was discovered three feet below the 
surface among the roots of a tree which was being felled. 
It is of great interest because it is the first example from 
British East Africa of a stone implement which has been ground 
or rubbed into its final shape. There is no reason to believe 
