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Said Hassan, and Mabruki on the right) is given at p. 
236, and W-, not fancying this, added a “ Tommy ” 
for our own mess. Though terribly wounded, this little 
antelope was getting away wdien two jackals took up 
the chase, running him one on either flank, and eventu¬ 
ally turning the poor wounded beastie and driving him 
back into W-’s face. They got the gralloch for 
their share. The zebras of the Athi are striped around 
the legs nearly down to the hoof, the last inch being 
black, thus belonging to the sub-species, or form Equus 
chajomani. Their colour, as in all East-African zebras, 
is of purest white, the bands broad and intensely black. 
The following day I at length succeeded in fulfilling 
one main ambition—by securing my first wildebeest 
bull of the East-African species. There were four of 
them in a wide-sweeping basin—impossible of access. 
Having a good “ rest ” on an ant-hill, I was constrained 
to try a shot at some 400 yards. No sound of a hit 
reached my ears, but within a minute one of the four 
stopped and lay down, the others halting beyond. 
There was no mistaking the import of this ; yet that 
stern-chase led us many a weary mile over shadeless 
plain, ere that great shaggy beast finally succumbed to 
a fifth bullet just before the sun went under. A wilde¬ 
beest bull is a noble prize ; this one was a fair average 
specimen, his horns measuring 22^ ins. between the 
inside bends. Dead-weight as he fell estimated at near 
500 lbs. For days and weeks after this, the wildebeests 
utterly defied our utmost efforts. 
We saw four eland to-day, as well as waterbuck, 
impala and wart-hog—the latter followed by small 
young. 
The lion still filled our minds. Rock-koppies and 
ravines alike had failed; but there remained another 
resource—namely, the beds of heavy green flags that 
fringe the river (called “ tinga-tinga ” by the natives), 
and which the Wakamba assured us held lions. One of 
the largest of these lies in full view of passengers on 
the Uganda railway—near mile-peg 300—and hard by 
