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GAME AND WAR 
of grazing cattle and with occasional patches of scrub. The 
whole of the grass land is interspersed with solitary thorn 
trees. 
The country seen from the Uganda railway near Kiu 
approximates to this sketch of country. 
2. The ‘ bush country,’ i.e. the country along the Tsavo 
river as far west as Mzima, and then on its right bank up 
to the Ziwani swamp. The country from Yoi westwards to 
Campi Ya Bibi and from the Tsavo river to Rukinga and 
from the Uganda railway to the Chyulu Hills. This also 
includes the bush from Salaita Hill to Lake Jipe at present 
temporarily occupied by the enemy. 
The more important game occupying these areas are as 
follows : 
Elephant 
Rhinoceros 
Buffalo 
Hippopotamus 
Lion 
Leopard 
Eland 
Greater and Lesser Kudu 
Gerenuk 
Coke’s Hartebeeste 
Wildebeeste 
Impalla 
Zebra 
Grant’s Gazelle (Serengetti and 
Typica) 
Thomson’s Gazelle 
Giraffe 
Ostrich 
Naturally when large bodies of men are encamped and 
are constantly moving about in areas which before the war 
were practically deserted, when these large bodies of men 
have at certain times to rely on game for food, when certain 
animals, such as rhinoceros, have to be destroyed on their 
endangering troops on patrol, and when at irregular intervals 
heavy rifle and maxim fire takes place, the local fauna becomes 
disturbed, and either changes its feeding-grounds or becomes 
destroyed. This is most noticeable in several animals, viz. 
elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, and lion. 
Taking these animals separately : 
Elephant . — The normal migration of the elephant appears 
to keep to the following general lines : At the start of the 
long rains the elephants leave the Kilimanjaro forests and 
move down into the plains, one party coming via Lake Jipe, 
