AFTER ORYX AND ELAND—BARINGO 81 
species (Numida ptilorhyncha ) were as numerous as 
grouse on a Northumbrian moor. 
Our main objective here was to secure the oryx and 
the eland. The latter, it is true, may be found at less 
inaccessible points; but nowhere in East Africa can the 
stately, straight-horned Oryx beisa be found within 
100 miles of the railway. Its main home is in Somali¬ 
land and Abyssinia, and rarely does it range southward 
of Baringo. We had done that long march expressly to 
secure a pair of oryx apiece—that being the limit allowed 
by law. Yet the total number of oryx on the Mugitani 
at this date (August) was certainly under a dozen. A 
single giraffe lingered there, while of elands I personally 
saw none. 
We therefore held on to the Tangulwee, a day’s 
march northwards. This river, which forms the bound¬ 
ary of the Sugota Game-reserve (in other words, all 
beyond it is “ sanctuary ”), has, for the equator, a fair¬ 
sized bed, yet was stone-dry. We were therefore com¬ 
pelled to fall back on another stream, a tiny trickling 
burn, hardly recognisable save by the croaking of frogs, 
that issues from the Laikipia Range, and was called, we 
understood, the Masai—a most unlikely name, as we 
were now in the Suk country, far beyond Masailand. 1 
It, however, provided our prime necessary—water; and 
from its banks, though game was far from abundant, we-, 
enjoyed many memorable days. We were, at this point, 
the northernmost white men in the British Protectorate,, 
excepting Arthur Neumann, who was still many marches, 
to the northward—away in the unknown by Lake 
Rudolph, too far distant for an afternoon call. 
On reaching camp that. evening, our men told us 
that while on the march they had seen a lion in the act 
of stalking some zebras feeding near the edge of the 
bush. 
1 For the beautiful photos in the Suk and Turkana countries 
here reproduced, my readers and I are indebted to Mr. G. F. Archer, 
who, as District-Commissioner, controls those wild regions beyond 
Baringo. 
