ORYX, ELAND, IMPALA, ETC. 
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merely seen in bush, however near, may be quite erro¬ 
neous ; still, I cannot identify this white-collared, slate- 
blue dikdik with any of the descriptions or figures given 
in the Book of Antelopes} It is at least certain that 
two species are found on these Baringo Plains. 
The Wandorobo guide just mentioned was rather 
interesting. He had been lent to us by Archer, and 
when he came to our camp was stark naked, possessing 
nothing beyond a spear and a wire anklet. We gave 
him a blanket; but he never entered a tent, preferring 
to coil himself up, dog-like, under some bush imme¬ 
diately behind our tents. He kept apart from the 
Swahili, and if they despised the wild savage, certainly 
the sentiment was mutual. He made his own fire, 
cooking scraps of meat and the bones he collected from 
the different messes, from which he made marrow-soup. 
But he was distinctly acquisitive. Beginning with an 
empty biscuit-tin, in which he stored rice and bits of 
biltong, he gradually accumulated property. On our 
return to Baringo he carried quite a big roll of “ Ameri- 
kani ” (cotton canvas) containing we knew not what, 
but clearly full of something. Here, in Equatorial Africa, 
one realises that “ property ” may truly be synonymous 
with robbery! 
As a guide he proved a failure, partly owing to his 
dread of bushy ground, wherein he ever suspected 
rhino; but he displayed a marvellous instinct for leading 
us to water in most unlikely spots. 
We were now in the Suk country, and occasionally 
able to obtain milk, etc., from these friendly savages in 
1 The following gives in tabular form the approximate distribu¬ 
tion of East-African dikdiks, and may be useful to sportsmen 
shooting in that country— 
Species. Locality. 
Gunther’s dikdik, Madoqua guentheri . Baringo. 
Unknown „ „ (?) ,, 
Cavendish’s ,, ,, cccuendishi : . Elmenteita, Enderit, etc. 
Hinde’s „ ,, hindei . . Simba, Makindu, etc. 
Kirk’s ,, Neotragus kirki . . Coast region only. 
