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ELAND AT THE COAST 
for pools of water left behind in the numerous holes (see Eig. 1). 
Just above this bed, which extends for about 200 yards down- 
stream, the whole of the water turns aside almost at right 
angles to the direction of the main stream into a narrow 
channel in the rock about eight feet wide and disappears down 
a hole. This channel is shown in Eig. 2. The black spot 
to the left of this picture is the end of a pole that has been 
pushed down to try and locate the hole. There is a decided 
eddy here, and articles thrown in are sucked down. Eig. 3 
gives another view of this cutting, showing the end of the 
channel where the water disappears. The rocky bed extends 
away to the right of the picture, and on following it down 
for about two hundred yards one comes to the edge — a sheer 
drop of about thirty or forty feet, at the bottom of which 
the water comes out of a cave under the rock (see Fig. 4). 
One can crawl in a very considerable distance, and the natives 
bring their goats here to get salt. In the rains, of course, 
the river sweeps right over this rock and forms a very fine 
waterfall. 
ELAND AT THE COAST 
By E. K. Boileau 
When returning overland from a visit to Kip ini in 1914, 
I came across a herd of eland on the high land over Eundi 
Isa, out of which I secured two full-grown males. The second 
was shot accidentally in the thick bush in mistake for the 
first bull, who had got away wounded. There were several 
cows in the herd — about eight, I think. 
The oldest inhabitant at Eundi Isa had never seen or 
heard of eland there, nor, indeed, have I been able to hear 
of anyone having ever done so. The name of ‘ mpofu,’ the 
Ki-Swahili for eland, is unknown even at Malindi. I shall be 
glad to hear if any readers have known of a similar case. 
The distance to the sea from the place where they were 
shot was roughly two and a half miles. 
Khino are also to be found near Marareni on the coast. 
