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IN AFRICA 
But we told about it when we struck town, and 
before the day was over it was the topic in hotels 
and clubs throughout the whole town of Nairobi. 
Everybody who had a gun was resolved to go out 
the next day, and interest was at a fever pitch. 
We went out again the following morning, shot 
at wildebeests at all known ranges, from two hun¬ 
dred yards up to five hundred yards—but our luck 
was against us. We came back empty-handed, and 
our chief reward for the morning’s work was the 
great privilege of seeing both Mount Kenia, ninety 
miles north, and Kilima-Njaro, nearly two hundred 
miles southeast, as clear as a cameo against the 
lovely African sky. 
The lesson of this story is not so much a review 
of bad shooting or of bad luck. The thing that 
seems most noteworthy is that within six or seven 
miles from Nairobi, nearly all the time within sight 
of the house-tops of that town, we had seen fifteen 
varieties of wild game, some of which were present 
in "great numbers. 
Wildebeest W aterbuck 
Hartebeest Impalla 
Hyena Giant Bustard 
Jackal Ostrich 
Thompson’s Gazelle Wart-hog 
Lion Wild Dog 
Rabbit Steinbuck 
Grant’s Gazelle 
Surely there is still some game left in Africa. 
