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IN AFRICA 
eral days and that it might he well to shoot a kon- 
goni. The latter knows what is passing in your 
mind long before you have made a single move¬ 
ment to betray your intentions. He begins to 
edge away, ready in an instant to go bounding rap¬ 
idly beyond rifle shot. 
I’ve seen a herd of kongoni standing quite near, 
watching me with curious interest, hut without fear. 
Perhaps I was intent upon something else and 
hardly noticed them. Suddenly a villainous thought 
might enter my head, such as “That big kongoni 
has enormous horns,” and instantly the herd would 
prick up their ears, run a few steps, and then turn 
to verify their suspicions. Then, if the villainous 
thought still lurked in my brain, they would sneeze 
shrilly and go galloping away in the distance. 
There is no way to explain this except to attribute it 
to thought transference, and this in spite of the fact 
that the kongoni doesn’t understand English. 
The kongoni is found nearly every place in East 
Africa. Along the railway between Makindu and 
Nairobi the species is called Coke’s harteheest. Far¬ 
ther up the railway the species is Neumann’s harte- 
beest, while still beyond, on the Guas Ngishu Plat¬ 
eau and the Mau escarpment, the species is called 
Jackson’s harteheest. In the main the three vari¬ 
eties are almost the same; it is in the horns that the 
chief distinction lies, with lesser differences in color 
and stature. The hunter has been allowed to kill 
ten of each on his license, hut under the new game 
ordinance in force since December, 1909, only four 
