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a hunting-dog, a single beast on each occasion. Grant’s 
gazelle plentiful, but of Thomson’s we met with only 
two or three. This is the limit of their northward 
range, which is practically bounded by the equator. 
None exist beyond Baringo. 1 
At this point we fell in with two natives, Wandorobo, 
hunting by means of a donkey. They had fitted the 
animal with a pair of wooden horns, and by crouching 
behind, guiding him with a cord to his nose, approached 
near enough, we were told, to kill hartebeests and even 
such large game as elands with their poisoned arrows. 
Their bows were primitive, and appeared very feeble. 
They used them horizontally, held along the line of the 
donkey’s back. 
A curious incident befell while shooting from this 
camp. I was stalking a little group of four Jackson’s 
hartebeests. Previous to starting on the stalk my 
brother and I had noticed a single zebra standing fast 
asleep on a grassy decline beyond. My first shot broke 
the shoulder of the best bull, but before getting quite 
beyond range the other three pulled up to gaze, a good 
bull mounting an ant-heap. I tried the second barrel at 
him, distance some 300 to 350 yards, and distinctly 
heard the bullet tell. What was my surprise to see, on 
jumping to my feet, that that bullet had struck, not the 
hartebeest aimed at, but the unfortunate zebra 100 
yards beyond, whose very existence I had forgotten, 
and which was actually out of my sight at the moment 
of firing. He must have been trotting away down the 
slope when the errant ball struck just by the root of his 
tail. The zebra was still struggling in extremis as we 
rushed by in pursuit of the lamed hartebeest, but it was 
hours before we recovered the latter, and on our return 
the zebra was dead. Our men, in consequence, refused 
to eat the meat, not having been bled, which would 
1 The correctness of this was subsequently confirmed by our 
experience on Lake Solai, further east and on the same line of 
latitude. We saw but one Thomson’s gazelle during our sojourn on 
Solai, though they are plentiful a dozen miles southward. 
