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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
massive boulders, the whole landscape reminding me 
of some of those half-wild parks to be found in the 
north of England, though, of course, on a grander scale. 
Here we pitched our camp, at an elevation of 10,000 
feet, in a little hollow, sheltered from the keen north¬ 
east wind by the brow of the hill above and by a small 
wood below. We passed the afternoon in a fruitless 
search for game declared by the natives to be abun¬ 
dant, and particularly attractive to the sportsman on 
account of its variety. We certainly came upon two 
little grey antelope, about the size of roe-deer, but, as 
we failed to obtain either of them, I can only hazard 
the probability that they represented unknown species 
of the Duiker class. 
The following morning the thermometer gave us 
the chilling information that the temperature was 
two degrees below freezing-point, a meteorological 
fact we had almost grasped when we found the 
water in our buckets lightly frozen over and our 
men surrounding a number of brilliant fires. From 
these groups we extracted our interpreters and Kiboso 
guides, who, with chattering teeth and shivering limbs, 
assured us that, a short time before our arrival, these 
frigid heights had been the particular rendezvous of 
all kinds of game, and suggested our making an im¬ 
mediate tour of inspection around, with the view to 
finding its present whereabouts. Our experience during 
the previous afternoon and our present ability to spy 
out the nakedness of the land (as far as game was 
concerned) for many miles, decided us to decline their 
