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an inch beyond the lower lip. I was fortunate in secur¬ 
ing a female a day or two later. The male weighed 
7 lbs. An even commoner species than this (though 
I had not an opportunity of shooting one) is of a slaty- 
grey colour with a white patch on the neck, and this 
I cannot identify. These were seen in rather thicker 
bush, and were sometimes remarkably tame. 
The configuration of the Baringo Plains, from the 
summit of Laikipia down to the lake, is a series of giant 
steps, best illustrated in the following rough diagram— 
feet 
One morning when shifting camp from A to B, a low 
koppie on the horizon had been indicated by our Wando- 
robo guide as the site of the next camp. This land¬ 
mark, however, as we discovered during the march, was 
not a koppie at all, but a mountain-peak of the Kamasea 
Range fifty miles away, beyond the lake. Meanwhile the 
misled safari at one point, my brother and self at two 
others, all separate, had descended the abrupt escarp¬ 
ment beyond B , and it was on this lower level, a region 
of far denser bush, that I noticed these unknown dik- 
diks at the point marked C, as well as some superb 
waterbuck. Having only two gun-bearers with me, and 
knowing that we were already lost and confronted with 
the risk of being once more “benighted” (being, besides, 
again overtaken by a thunderstorm and torrential rains), 
I did not care to burden ourselves with game. Thus a 
possible chance of securing a new species was lost; for 
before finally reaching camp, after hours of anxiety, we 
had to reascend the escarpment, and never again visited 
the lower level. Of course one’s impression of an animal 
