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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
the tuft is much narrower than the white part of the tuft 
and in a photograph is often quite invisible. Notwith¬ 
standing the long-known character of the Grevy zebra in 
Abyssinia, it has been known from the southern part of its 
range in British East Africa only recently. Count Teleki, 
during his journey of discovery of Lake Rudolf in 1888, was 
the first sportsman to report its occurrence in British ter¬ 
ritory. He met with it near the south end of Lake Rudolf 
and along its eastern shore. William Astor Chanler was, 
perhaps, the next sportsman to meet with it, in 1892, during 
his exploration of the Northern Guaso Nyiro River and the 
Lorian swamp. In 1898 A. H. Neumann, in his “ Elephant 
Hunting in East Equatorial Africa,” gave the first careful 
account of the habits and distribution of the species in 
British East Africa. 
The big zebra, which our porters called kangani, was 
only met with by us on the banks of the Northern Guaso 
Nyiro. The country was very dry, it being evident that no 
rain had fallen for many months, and under the blazing 
equatorial sun the grass had withered almost to straw, and 
the dry acacias and wait-a-bit thorns were almost leafless. 
The strange candelabra euphorbias, and trees covered by a 
mass of green, fleshy thorns instead of leaves, seemed to 
harmonize well with the landscape. The only water was in 
the Northern Guaso Nyiro or an occasional rare stream 
flowing into it. Back from the river were hills and buttes, 
bordering the dry plains, which were sometimes bare and 
sometimes covered with stretches of leafless thorn scrub. 
It was bad galloping, for the ground was rotten in places, 
and in other places covered with volcanic stones; but the 
game ran as if unhampered by either the stones or the 
rotten ground. 
On the bare, grassy plains, and more rarely where there 
