xxvii ANIMALS WHICH PROVIDE MEAT, ETC. 271 
“Buffalo” Jones, came to the Protectorate with a 
novel method of slaughtering its inhabitants, I believe 
that the Kongoni ” alone proved absolutely beyond 
his powers to capture. There can be no question as 
to the destructive powers and propensities of this 
beast. In huge herds he breaks fences and ravages 
crops, thereby winning for himself no slight measure 
of opprobrium. Everyone’s hand is against him, and 
on the occupied portions of the Protectorate he is 
fast decreasing. Yet the first comer and those who 
even now live on the outskirts of civilisation should 
and generally do remember the stomachs that have 
been filled, and the traces and shafts that have 
been mended through the agency of the despised 
“ Kongoni.” An average pair of Coke’s hartebeeste 
horns measure about 19 inches on the front curve, 
and generally speaking every big game shooter 
breaks the recorded record, which gives pleasure to 
him and does no harm to anyone. An average pair 
belonging to a Jackson bull would be 23 inches, and 
25 inches would be unusually large. Neumann’s 
variety might measure 22 inches. 
The Topi , in certain parts of the Protectorate, takes 
the place of the hartebeeste, to which species he is 
allied. A much more handsome animal, with his dark 
chestnut coat, and more compact and neat head, he 
possesses many of the same characteristics, and has 
the same propensities for evil. In those parts of the 
Highlands already in white occupation he is only 
found in the neighbourhood of Londiani and round 
Muhoroni. Elsewhere topi are very plentiful in Juba- 
land, east and north of Lake Rudolf, and from the 
Loieta plains to the German frontier. A good pair of 
horns would measure 19 inches. 
