70 GAME ON THE COAST AND ITS DEPREDATIONS 
Oribi, duiker, and topi are not, to the writer’s knowledge, 
to be found in the coast belt of Seyidis province, south of the 
Sabaki, but there are considerable numbers of them on the 
mainland of Lamu province. Gerenuk is found in Jubaland 
only, while Hunter’s antelope roams the Tana valley. Paa 
are common wherever there is bush, and the reedbuck, though 
rare, is found in the Sabaki valley. He is commoner on the 
Tana. 
There are no zebra nearer than Fundeisa, a village about 
ten miles north of Mambrui. Four years ago there was a 
small herd on the Sabaki lowlands, but the approach of the 
white man drove it further north. They exist also in con- 
siderable numbers in Jubaland. 
Pigs and porcupines are, like the poor, always with us. 
Their name spells destruction to young plants, and many a 
man has had to deplore the loss of hundreds of promising young 
rubber trees in one night. The only effective method of 
prevention, is fencing which adds considerably to the expense 
of a plantation. 
Baboons and monkeys, too, maintain their reputation for 
destructiveness. There is no animal more wantonly destructive 
in a plantation than a monkey, and the amount of damage 
a small troop can do in half an hour is almost incredible. 
Fortunately, a little judicious shooting will frighten them off, 
and the clearing of bush in the vicinity of a plantation is a great 
preventive. The monkey does not like travelling on open 
ground ; he feels unsafe unless he is aloft, and a wide belt of 
cleared ground round a plantation will almost always ensure 
its safety from depredation. There is no doubt that, speaking 
generally, wanton destruction to shambas of all kinds is yearly 
caused by most of these animals. 
