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instances they terminate in long shafts from fifteen to 
twenty feet in height, looking exactly like small factory 
chimneys. At a distance of a mile or so they are apt 
to be rather misleading, as they may easily be mistaken 
for a herd of animals, hut I cannot say we were ever 
short-sighted enough to mistake them at a short dis¬ 
tance for hartebeest, as Mr. Johnston says he did, 
for they are almost always at least four times as 
large. 
The first day H- shot one hartebeest and a 
steinbock (Swahili Isha), and I shot a hartebeest and 
a good specimen of a Granti (Swaluli Sward), the 
latter, a pretty little antelope rather smaller than a 
fallow-buck, is of a light fawn colour, with beautiful 
annulated horns from two to two and a half feet in 
length, which curve first gracefully backwards, then 
outwards, and finally forwards at the points; the 
females are smaller and lighter in colour and have thin 
and nearly straight horns from fourteen to seventeen 
inches in length. I also saw some oryx-beisa antelope, 
but they went off at full speed before I got within 
eight hundred yards of them. Our afternoon was occu¬ 
pied in skinning the heads of the Granti, hartebeest, 
and steinbock, and in making a platform in a tree near 
the largest pool of water. I was anxious to try and 
get a shot at a lion by sitting up during the night, 
as, from their numerous pugs, they were evidently in 
the habit of coming down here to drink. 
We sent back to Taveta all the meat we did not 
require, for Martin was at this time buying up a large 
