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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
the whole gemsbok species that one horn is generally 
longer than the other. Altogether, eight rhinos, three 
Granti, and one oryx represented no bad day’s sport, and 
after cutting up the meat and despatching it to Taveta, 
we sat down to some of the best beef we had ever tasted. 
I do not think there would be the grumbling so often 
heard, in some of the best clubs in London, if the 
members could always get an entre cote equal to that 
provided by the Useri bullock, notwithstanding the 
fact of our healthy appetites having something to do 
with our most particular approval. 
We had another day’s shooting here before re¬ 
turning to Taveta, and our bag consisted of one rhino, 
one Granti, and one hartebeest, shot by B-, one 
striped hysena and one mpallah, shot by C-, who 
also saw eland, one wart-hog and one Granti shot by 
H-, while four rhinos fell to my share. 
We left next day for our old Sirnba camp, each 
taking a separate track, but arriving nearly at the same 
time, after traversing a monotonous line of country 
divided between barren rock and dense grass jungle. 
We all reached our destination empty-handed, though 
I passed two rhinos within easy distance ; but we were 
not in want of meat, and I had no desire to destroy 
any more of these beasts, unless I could do so for some 
useful purpose. 
C-lost a good chance of getting a buffalo bull, 
as the bearer of his eight-bore was lagging behind, at 
the particular moment his immediate presence, to the 
fore, was required. We all, in turn, came upon a long 
