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north pole. I am consoled in thinking that my shot 
must have inflicted more surprise than injury and 
so I hope he has now fully recovered, wilder and 
beastier than of yore. 
My last shot in Africa, the day before leaving 
for the coast, was at a wildebeest an hour or so out 
of Nairobi. This time I missed entirely and repeat¬ 
edly and the wildebeest remains unscathed to roam 
Wildebeest With the White Man Only Eight Miles Away 
the broad plains of the Athi until some better or 
luckier shot passes his way. If I have anything on 
my conscience, it is certainly not the remorse of 
having reduced the supply of wildebeests. 
In our last few days’ shooting out on the Athi 
Plains we saw perhaps fifty or seventy-five of these 
great bison-like animals. Their bodies and legs 
and tails are slender and graceful, like those of a 
horse, but the heads are heavy-featured, heavy¬ 
horned and heavy-bearded. They are wild and 
