THE MOUNT ELGON COUNTRY 
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by seventeen gunbearers and porters. Our battery 
consisted of four elephant guns, four heavy rifles, 
three light rifles, and four shotguns. The latter 
were for grouse and the others were for incidental 
big game which one must always be prepared for. 
The Grouse Hunt 
whether one goes out to shoot grouse or take snap¬ 
shots with one’s camera. 
We spread out and beat two miles of perfect 
cover. Then we beat it back again and finally, after 
all our Herculean efforts, one lonely bird flew up 
and was knocked over. That was the astounding to- 
