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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 
’Ndorobo were a unit in saying that these monkeys were 
much more easy to see than their less brightly colored 
kinsfolk who dwell in the same forests; and this was my 
own experience. 
When camped in these high forests the woods after 
nightfall were vocal with the croaking and wailing of the 
tree hyraxes. They are squat, woolly, funny things, and to 
my great amusement I found that most of the settlers 
called them Teddy bears.” They are purely arboreal 
and nocturnal creatures, living in hollows high up in the 
big trees, by preference in the cedars. At night they are 
very noisy, the call consisting of an opening series of ba- 
trachian-like croaks, followed by a succession of quavering 
wails—eerie sounds enough, as they come out of the black 
stillness of the midnight. They are preyed on now and 
then by big owls and by leopards, and the white-tailed 
mongoose is their especial foe, following them everywhere 
among the tree tops. This mongoose is both terrestrial and 
arboreal in habits, and is hated by the ’Ndorobo because it 
robs their honey buckets. 
The bongo and the giant hog were the big game of these 
deep forests, where a tangle of undergrowth filled the spaces 
between the trunks of the cedar, the olive, and the yew or 
yellow-wood, while where the bamboos grew they usually 
choked out all other plants. Delamere had killed several 
giant hogs with his half-breed hounds; but on this occasion 
the hounds would not follow them. On three days we 
came across bongo; once a solitary bull, on both the other 
occasions herds. We never saw them, although we heard 
the solitary bull crash off through the bamboos; for they 
are very wary and elusive, being incessantly followed by the 
