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ON SAFARI 
it with my very last cartridge. What strikes one on 
examining these antelopes newly-killed, are the immense 
ears and the big prominent eye, set high up in the broad 
forehead—no wonder they can see and hear! The 
irides are rich dark hazel, and a narrow^ black blaze runs 
down centre of face. 
During this cripple-chase, while passing through 
some terribly rocky ground, I found myself in the midst 
of a troop of baboons, some running on all-fours, others 
perched on rock-pinnacles. I shot one of the iatter, a 
female of the East-African 
species, Papio ibeanus , which 
was busy eating a wild fruit 
like a “devil's tomato/’ called 
here by a pretty Swahili name 
that I forget. The day’s bag 
also included an impala and 
a pair of Cavendish’s dikdik, 
the male scaling 11^ lbs. 
(Madoqua cavendishi ), with 
horns 3^ ins. in length ; the 
female weighed a good pound 
more than her lord. I saw 
them feeding outside some 
very rocky scrub, stalked the 
spot, and got both with a 
right-and-left of buckshot. I also wounded an ostrich, 
but failed to secure him. 
Leaving Elmenteita, we marched round the south¬ 
eastern end of the lake, seeing on route several more 
immense wart-hogs, a few ostriches and other game. The 
country here is absolutely lovely, park-like, studded with 
clumps of mimosa, while “ fever-trees ” like huge beeches, 
except for their vicious thorns and blood-red inner bark, 
fringe the lake-shore ; there are rugged koppies in mid¬ 
distance, and a mountain background to complete the 
picture. We encamped on the Karriendoos River, on 
the north side of the lake, and half-a-mile inland from 
the river-mouth. 1 
chanler’s reedbuck (female). 
1 See sketch map at p. 14. 
