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up very high and precipitous with a email fringe of forest on their 
sharp ridges. Height probably about 6000 feet. Canght during the night 
many ius hildebrandti and one Gatert. In the road today were many mungos 
tracks. Saw aiec a fev rabbit pills. io huek were seen by anyone in the 
party. Along nesrly all the dm creek beads vere clumps of dry bamboo 
about 15 feet high and one or tro inches in diameter. 9: Hade a march of 
8 miles to a camp near the Lormheki River. Country @bout.as yesterday as 
regerds botany and fauna. Last night I caneght 5 narrow stiped arvicantnus 
only. deAvle put out steel traps but canght nothing although many raungos 
tracks Were seen on the rods. Went out with the head light for a fer 
hours but saw nothings (249) The Dr. found 4 burrowa of a mole rat and 
Jessie found one in which he set a trap but the animal did not disturb 
lite Saw no mounds along the road today. Ho buck seen but pills cormon, 
also considerable black rhino sign. 10: Safezi started at 3.30 A.H, but 
J.A,Le and myself remmined untid daylight} and picked up our traps. Ceanght 
35 large Tatera and one Mus hildebrandti. Saw along the road seversl dozen 
old mounds of a mole rat but could “ind none whatever in the native sham bass 
lio buck were seen along the road. A march of 11 miles was made through 
a flat level country with aualler trees than previously. “he predominating 
tree is "erminalia macroptera. Pasted a fer streams with dry beds with 
a few poole dug in the wet sand. (Una dampi. (25 il: Got away early 
and made the 12 miles to the nent camp at Myouri Jordin in four hours. 
Country level with good soil and very few rocks; country less bushy. 
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‘rees chiefly thorn treas. <A fer of the thorny date-fruited trees seen. 
wR. sent out to a saddle hill two hours out of camp yesterday. fe sav 
a herd of four elephant but no buck. He shot one stree squirrel similar 
in color to F. jacksoni of 3.8.4. The Dr. found a few forest buffalo tracks 
Sxamined the extensive shambas about the village for mole rat burrows but 
found none. Saw no buek along the route. 12: Remained all day in camp 
to rest the safari. %,R. and KR. went out for buck in different direoations. 
TeR.e shot two ¢d reedbucks, one ¥ Oribi and a red 4 baboon like the species 
seen on the Guas ligisha Platean. (251) He saw a party of 5-6 of these 
baboons which kept to the ground like baboons. He saw also several kongonti 
which were reddish like jaoksoni of B.E.A. and very different from the pale 
February, 1910, 
(251) short horned ones of Rhino camp. “he Reedbuck are very Lieht colored as is 
also the oribi. It is apparent that the Nile is considered a barrier to 
the game as instanced by the white rhino on the weet bank of the river and 
the black ones on the the enst. “he Hartehbeest are apparently different as 
are also the Oribi. Caught today a Lohpuromys, 3 species of Mus, one Arvi- 
santhus and one Tatera. One of the porters brought in e newly born reed- 
buok, ram. Oribi sipm wan seen everywhere. KR. shot two Roan from a herd 
of 15 and a * bushbuck Like those from rhino camp. 13: Made a march of 
8 miles today. Saw only a few oribi. Gaucht only one Mus in the trans. 
?.Re Went out from camp (252) for tek but saw only one konfoni and several 
oribi.[Lok ko Leggr Carp]. 14: Gamped at Ledeus at 9,50 A.M. It is waite 
uated on a slight rise among several rocky hills with beownas villages close 
by. Set traps in the rocks among the hills and caught several Aconys, 
Arvicanthus nairobae, A. neumanni, Lepgada and Mus hildebrandti, one Tatera 
and a medium Crocidurae One Hyrax was seen on the rocks. ¥K.R. shot a ¢ 
kongoni which resembles jacksoni and horn development very close and is 
very distinct from the pale colored, small horned ones shot at rhino camp. 
He saw a herd of six. Roan were reported by one of the head men who sav 
them on the way. We saw a few ovribi on the march. One of the common trees 
was Butyrospermum parkii. “his beavs a large edible green fruit which the 
natives eat but they are very tart. (253) 15: Hade a long march of 6 hours 
to Nyonki Kiribia on the Nile a little south of the Kit River. .R. shot 
@ 3 kongoni on the way from a small herd. No other buck were seen. The 
Dr» saw & rabbit. Much elephant sign was seen, this is, dung and meny 
broken thorn trees, some 10 inches in diameter were broken square off. 
Considerable Rhino scraping was suon nnder some of the bushes. Several 
clumps of a new palm were seen and & small branching blue fanplam or dorn 
palm. Medemia abladensin reported from White Nile. 16: A report vesterday 
of elephants was brought in by the chief so we remained in camp all day to 
wait for information from the scoutse Shot bats during the evening and got 
two two very amall Pipistrellus. “he ro bahoon-like monly shot by 7.R. 
some four days ago is apparently Erthrosebus potas pyrrhonotus but it does 
agree with the description, the naked part of the face being black rather 
than white and the feet being blackish instead of white. The porters 

