282 THE GUASO NYERO [ch. xi 
Kermit shot many other animals, among them three 
fine oryx, one of which he rode down on horseback, 
manoeuvring so that at last it galloped fairly closely 
across his front, whereupon he leaped off his horse for 
the shot; an ardwolf (a miniature hyena with very weak 
teeth), which bolted from its hole at his approach ; 
gerunuk, small antelope with necks relatively as long 
as giraffes 5 , which are exceedingly shy and difficult to 
obtain ; and the Grevy’s zebra, as big as a small horse. 
Most of his hunting was done alone, either on foot or 
on horseback ; on a long run or all-day tramp no other 
member of our outfit, black or white, could quite keep 
up with him. He and Tarlton found where a leopard 
had killed and partly eaten a nearly full-grown individual 
of this big zebra. He also shot a twelve-foot crocodile. 
The ugly, formidable brute had in its belly sticks, 
stones, the claws of a cheetah, the hoofs of an impalla, 
and the big bones of an eland, together with the shell- 
plates of one of the large river-turtles ; evidently it took 
toll indifferently from among its fellow-denizens of the 
river, and from among the creatures that came to drink, 
whether beasts of pasture or the flesh-eaters that preyed 
upon them. 
He also shot three buffalo bulls, Tarlton helping him 
to finish them off, for they are tough animals, tenacious 
of life and among the most dangerous of African game. 
One turned to charge, but was disabled by the bullets 
of botli of them before he could come on. Tarlton, 
whose experience in the hunting field against dangerous 
game had been large, always maintained that, although 
lion-hunting was the most dangerous sport, because a 
hunted lion was far more apt to charge than any other 
animal, yet when a buffalo bull did charge he was more 
dangerous than a lion, because harder to kill or turn. 
