ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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Just north of this place was our base of sup¬ 
plies, “Campi Doctari” or “Campi Ziwani,” to 
which, before leaving Londiani, we had sent 
ahead enough provisions to see us through our 
trip to the north of Elgon. Past here runs the 
well-worn trail used by the Somali and other 
natives to reach the railroad and port near Lake 
Victoria. 
We could hardly decide to tear ourselves 
away from Junction Camp. With cool rivers 
flowing down the slopes, swamps everywhere, 
far-reaching plains, shady park lands and vir¬ 
gin forest, no wonder there is game in profu¬ 
sion. Lions (Leo leo massaica) , though never 
roaring, were rather numerous. A wooded island 
amidst the swamps was their favorite resort. 
Their claw marks in the bark of trees about 
seven feet above the ground showed that some of 
them at least came there regularly to “make 
their nails” like all other cats. Curiously enough 
we succeeded in bagging only one lioness and 
that in a way which was most unpleasant. One 
of our men, acting as a “driver,” in aimlessly 
beating through the grass with a stick lie car¬ 
ried, must have accidentally hit the lioness. 
He was not aware of her crouching at arm’s 
length. Infuriated, she charged, and in the en¬ 
suing tussle before an effective shot could be 
placed she mauled him badly, without however 
injuring any vital parts. When three weeks 
after, “Siafu” was well again, he firmly be¬ 
lieved I had saved his life. Lions apparently 
are often conscious of the advantage of attack¬ 
ing at close quarters and cunningly let the vic¬ 
tim approach their lair. On the other hand, 
defenseless antelopes on the short grass plains 
make every effort speedily to put distance be¬ 
tween them and their enemies. 
Nowhere in the marshes and open stretches 
of water did w r e encounter hippopotamus or 
situtunga but near a pond birds were exceed¬ 
ingly common. Among the flocks of pigeons that 
sported about near the shore was a rare turtle¬ 
dove (Turturoena delagorguei sliarpei). 
With the end of April, we decided to ascend 
Mt. Elgon by the southeastern slope. On en¬ 
tering the foothills the well-beaten trails of ele¬ 
phants sometimes offer a smooth and comfort¬ 
able path where these huge pachyderms cut 
their own highways into the wilderness to near 
the top of the mountain. Small troops of giraffes 
(Giraffa Camelopardalis rothschildi ) in awk¬ 
wardly bounding gallop proved to us their far- 
seeing powers; one afternoon, however, three 
of the bolder members only took to flight a 
short distance in front of the caravan. Well 
screened from view by a perfect maze of 
branches and foliage, they were approached un¬ 
known to us. Very different acted the black 
rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis), of which a num¬ 
ber were met during the first few days of our 
ascent. Frequently we had to halt the cara¬ 
van to allow them to move away as much not 
to invite attack as to allay the fears of our 
porters. Late in the afternoon when hunting 
for francolin ( Francolinus schiitti maranensis ) 
I just escaped by a hair’s breadth what might 
have been an untoward incident. So intent was 
I on the search, I took my stand in front of 
what on hasty glance seemed to be an aardvark 
burrow. Imagine my surprise when a belligerent 
warthog ( Phacochoerus ) shot out. Later events 
proved he was as greatly scared as I. This den 
had been considerably widened to accommodate 
its new fossorial inmate. Warthogs, by the way, 
are frequently seen during the daytime in 
troops or singly. The Ndorobo guide then and 
there promised surely to show me one of the 
huge black forest boars ( Hylochoerus ), whose 
great plowing action I later had ample op¬ 
portunity to marvel at in the higher lying mount¬ 
ain forest. 
(To be concluded in the January Bulletin.) 
$850,000 MORE ENDOWMENT OR— 
WHAT ? 
There is a tide in the affairs of men that 
taken at the ebb leads on to the poor house. 
A Society with a staggering load to carry 
can grow faint from malnutrition, and be com¬ 
pelled to throw over part of its load, just the 
same as a famishing camel in a desert. When 
societies for the good of mankind find that they 
have undertaken more than their support will 
sustain, they must lop off something or go down. 
Last January the Zoological Society gave 
ample notice that as now supported it is over¬ 
loaded, and can not carry on without the an¬ 
nual income of $2,000,000 more of endowment. 
The most serious and overwhelming trouble is 
the actual financial inability of the City to pro¬ 
vide the $300,000 of annual maintenance money 
that the Zoological Park imperatively demands 
in order to live, and maintain its high reputa¬ 
tion. We may just as well accept the fact that 
under the present strained financial situation, 
and the high cost of city maintenance, the City 
positively can not furnish the full amount of 
funds that the proper “maintenance of the Park, 
its buildings and collections” actually requires. 
The Society must help out further by new 
