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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
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varieties of the smaller class, of which Burchell’s is the typical 
species. I shot one, and carefully noted its characteristics, as 
well as those of others which I had the opportunity of observing 
at short range through my glasses; but I unfortunately did 
not bring home a skin, as I was disappointed in my expecta¬ 
tion of procuring a specimen on my return journey. The 
peculiarities, as noted in my diary, are : “ Stripes black and 
very broad, and ground colour white in all (both mares and 
stallions).” They also struck me as being unusually small, 
but in this I might be in error through my eye having become 
accustomed to the upstanding form of the splendid animal 
called Grevy’s zebra. The measurements of the one I killed 
(an adult male) were: height at withers, 3 feet 1 1 inches ; 
length of head, 1 foot 9 inches ; ditto, from between ears to 
root of tail (straight), 5 feet 7 inches ; tail (without tuft), 
1 foot si inches ; girth, 4 feet 10 inches (measured just after 
death and entered on spot). I subsequently came to the 
conclusion that these zebra did not differ from those of the 
Burchell type which I met with elsewhere on this expedition 
(though, as I had not kept the skin of the one just described, 
I could not compare them side by side), for one which I shot 
to the eastward of the Lorogis (also an adult male) measured 
exactly the same in height. 
As I knew that Abdulla might be expected to arrive at 
El Bogoi any day now, I wanted to be at hand. Accordingly, 
on 19th October we started to return, crossing the mountains 
by a different and much better route. We followed a good 
elephant path, with a comparatively easy gradient, most of the 
way to the top, and camped for the night close to Lesiat’s old 
kraal, near the eastern summit and overlooking the low country. 
It was a pleasant march, through fine shady forest, in some 
places the trees of considerable size. The juniper is chiefly 
on the western slopes, but not, as a rule, very large. The 
huts in this Ndorobo encampment in the forest (now deserted) 
were thatched with leaves, as there was no grass there ; they 
