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chestnut laterally, and set off by a white patch at either 
tear-duct. Though almost bare of hair, the huge blue- 
grey body still showed the yellow vertical stripes, 
though indistinctly. The horns were worn down with 
age, and compared badly with those of the younger 
bull, which taped 26 ins. straight. The latter animal 
was of a bright fawn-colour, with yellow stripes. He 
lacked the matted forehead and pendent dewlap, but 
carried a heavy tuft of hair below the neck, which had 
.. been almost worn off in the older bull. 
Estimated weights in the field are necessarily un¬ 
certain, but this younger bull eland appeared to my 
eye about equal in bulk and weight to a big Norwegian 
bull-elk. The latter animal I have actually ascertained 
to scale 1,260 lbs. clean. Should this comparison be 
correct, the patriarch, with his vastly bulkier frame, and 
carrying far more fat, may have represented hard by a 
ton dead-weight as he lay. 
The stalking both of eland and Jackson’s hartebeest 
had been true stalking, by which I mean that the game 
had not seen or suspected the presence of a hunter till 
receiving the bullet. The approach to oryx, Coke’s 
and Neumann’s hartebeest, wildebeest, Grant’s gazelle, 
zebra and other denizens of perfectly open plains is 
hardly stalking in the strict sense. It is rather out¬ 
manoeuvring ; but our tongue is defective in distinctive 
terms in venery. Bush-stalking, as already mentioned, 
is yet another art. 
After off-skinning the two eland bulls we were four 
hours’ march from camp, and, curiously, on our way 
thither I saw four more elands. Ten days later I found 
these antelopes in some numbers near Lake Elmenteita, 
where there had been none two months before. Clearly 
at this date (September) elands were moving into both 
these districts. I should add that all I saw were com¬ 
paratively young animals ; never again, that year, did I 
see one of those heavy old patriarchs such as that whose 
head now adorns my walls. 
Besides the game mentioned, we also met with the 
