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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
large quantities of game were reported to frequent that 
district during the season when the vegetation of the 
surrounding plains was dried up. With this trip in 
view we only remained at Taveta two days, which 
were fully occupied in preparing our trophies, any 
surplus time being filled up by attending to the garden. 
First we each selected five men to act as gun-bearers, 
and then, after completing all other necessary arrange¬ 
ments, H- and C-, with the caravan of ninety 
men, started for Lanjora, where B- and Jackson 
joined them late in the afternoon. On the road C- 
shot a steinbock, and II- got a hartebeest, a 
jackal, a mongoose, a spur-fowl, and a thick snake 
about four feet long. B-, marching with me, shot 
a spur-fowl, a partridge, and a lesser bustard ; so the 
day resulted in a mixed bag of eight varieties, such as 
they were. 
The following morning we marched about fifteen 
miles through the bush, till we found a suitable camping- 
ground near the east shore of Lake Jipe, which on this 
side is hidden from view by a wide belt of tall rushes 
and clumps of mimosa. During the journey IT- 
shot a reed-buck, a bright red antelope about the size 
of a chamois with similarly shaped horns, and C- 
brought down a fair specimen of mpallah, which is 
common in these parts and always to be found in bush 
bordering pools or springs of water. They are reddish- 
brown in colour, about the size of fallow deer, aud 
have graceful widespread horns. I had to carry the 
gun “ for the pot,” and my bag only consisted of a brace 
