EASTERN ETHIOPIA xiv/ 
quickly left the grass land and sought the society of 
trees in order to avoid the rush of the stampeding herd. 
The animals passed within 200 yards, hut the grass was 
so high that it concealed us. On this occasion the 
clever way in which a herd of buffalo directed by 
Mowghli effected the destruction of the tiger, Shere 
Khan, as related by Kipling in the absorbing Jungle 
The Iinpalla. jEpyceros mtlam'piis. 
One of the most graceful of the antelope family. This 
gazelle abounds in the Rift Valley. 
Book, came forcibly to my mind. None of us was 
anxious to be trampled to death. A friend related to 
me a story in which an Ndorobo, whilst hunting a 
buffalo, was attacked and so crushed by the angry brute 
that the remains could only be recognised as those of a 
man by the fact that one of the hunter s feet stuck out 
of the mangled mass. 
