LETTER FROM SIR R. G. HARVEY. 
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Hunter went next day and photographed the tusker, which 
was an immense heast. The Gallas spent several days in cutting 
up the meat and drying it in the sun, and the whole country 
was a perfect mass of vultures, who covered every hush and tree 
near the carcass. 
There were a considerable number of eland about this 
country, hut personally I only succeeded in shooting a cow, and 
very nearly lost my eye while shooting it. I crawled up 
to within seventy yards and fired from behind a small hush, 
when the stock broke, short off at the grip. The shot had no 
result on the eland, which simply stood broadside looking in 
my direction. Being very anxious to shoot it, and as it pre¬ 
sented such a splendid chance, I held the rifle out in front 
of me and fired. The result was, that the recoil sent the 
splintered end of the stock on to my face, cut my eyebrow 
badly, and sent me over backwards, which perhaps was not to 
he wondered at, considering I was firing a "5 77 express with 
seven drachms and an extra long solid bullet. I had, however, 
the satisfaction of seeing that the eland was still more damaged, 
and of seeing it soon after fall over dead, the bullet having hit 
it in the ribs. 
Ramasan then came up, and on my telling him what had 
happened, he said that the stock had been cracked ever since 
the rifle was knocked out of my hands by a buffalo in the 
Masai country. 
We continued having the same kind of sport, gradually re¬ 
turning down the left bank of the river, until the 23rd, when I 
finished my sport in Africa, at least as far as big game was con¬ 
cerned, by bagging an oribi and a cock ostrich, the latter by a 
splendid fluke at a good three hundred yards from the shoulder. 
These made up twenty-seven different species of big game that 
I had shot in Africa. We purchased some more canoes, and 
lashed the smaller ones two and two, so as to prevent any 
chance of their being upset. I only wish we had done the 
same with our biggest, which was heavily laden, and had some 
seven or eight men sitting on the goods. It began to roll 
