Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913. 
VOL. LXXX.—No. 4. 
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In East Africa for American Museum Natural History 
W E who live in lands where civilization has 
gradually developed, where science has 
been the handmaid and helper for gener¬ 
ations of the adventures, cannot easily realize its 
newness, the unexpectedness of the dangers and 
difficulties that confront those who thrust their 
way and fortune among regions where science 
is quite unknown; where no civilized or even 
semi-civilized people have ever developed the 
country or themselves. 
East Africa of all regions on earth has 
been till very lately the least known, the least 
affected by European life. It stands to reason 
By DR. WILLIAM S. RAINSFORD 
that if there still remain any large mammals 
unknown to our zoologists, they must be found 
in such a land, and this is what has happened 
in British East Africa. 
Three of such animals there are. Just now, 
Nov. 29, 1912, a report says there is a fourth, 
and two certainly, viz.; the giant pig and the 
bergo have been found here. 
Just lately, I say, persistent reports of a 
fourth new mammal have been coming in. But 
so strange, so unlikely are these reports, that 
it is hard to give much importance to them. A 
quite new and large savage beast is declared to 
exist among the woodlands reserved for the 
Naudi tribe to the southwest ward of Kewasin 
Gisher plateau. These natives have constantly 
spoken of such a beast. Its name among them, 
as nearly as I can get it, is chemosit. It is 
supposed to have the general appearance of a 
bear, with a wolf’s head. Now, unconfirmed 
native reports of living things, possible and im¬ 
possible, we all give little heed to, but several 
white settlers in the last four years declare they 
have seen such an animal, and now a few weeks 
ago one of them states that he has shot one and 
has taken the skin. 
CAPTIVE AND CAPTORS. 
Photograph by Edwin Pinches. 
