dune ~15~ 
(57) some Kartebeest and Irpalia but shot nothing. Most of the way Was 
through the giant sage brush with occasionnl open glades of a few acres 
in area. The camp at the Ngauri larok was a large open meadow, The 
river {6 open with occasional lerge yem trees with a few yellow~harked 
acacias. Set out some traps abowu scarp in grass. 1M: Left the Ngaurt 
Narok at 9 4.4. Caught an Storysa, a Lohpuromrs and J.4.L, caught several 
Mus peromysous and Lohpuromya. The country between this can and the 
Guaso Nyiro is like that just passed through, f.e., giant sage brush end 
open glades, but the glades were rmch larger near the Guaso Hyiro. On 
the wey over E.R, shot a ¢ topi yhinh waa found with a # on one of the 
Glades. %.R, shot a ¢ Wildebeast near the river. (58) Hany others were 
seen, A180 Thomsoni gazelle. Several colonies of banded mangos were seen 
on the open blains. “he doctor shot one by waiting near a colony until 
One came out of its burrow. He saw sbout a dozen in this colony. 
Arrived at the yieke at 2P.h. Gnd made camp very near Uncle Tom Agatets 
Hema. Near the river & tall tree like aloe was found common which grew 
to § to 10 feet high. Li: T.R.e went ont alone at 9 A.H. and shot two 
bull eland sbout 2 miles from caisp. The two were found together and were 
the only ones seen, The larger was en ald ¢ but retained the atripes, 
the other was an adult but nat mature and had the prominent stripes and 
reddish color of & cow. “he stomachs of these contained mostly grass 
and the leaves of a shrub which (591) is abundant out on the grass veldt 
and is mich eaten by agattle. Besides these several large pieces of aloe 
leaves were found in the stomach. ™.k, iso shot a fine * topi later in 
the P.M. The first animal shot as ho lett camp was a 3 G, thomsoni, 
¥.R. shot a ¢ and # G. ¢ vobertsi but went out ppimarily for lions. 
No evidence of lions was found. Day cloudy and cool. dsAsL. caught 
nothing in a large series of small traps set near camp in runways in 
the grass. 12: Remained in camp skining the eland 7.2. shot. He also 
shot two ¢ zebra near camp snd later sent ins ¥ Topi, K.R. and Tarl- 
ton went out early for lions. Ke. shot # very large ¢ Lion and a 7 and 
? cheetah. ‘They saw a leopard, serertl rhino and A herd of giraffe. 
JeAcl. CMueht several Tatera which were lighter than the Atni ones, also 
(60) & small spectes of this genius and some large lus. (60) 13: TR. sent 
June =A~ 
(60} in two Impalla and a robertsi. Dr» Me shot a young buehbuck. A Masai 
came in in the morning with a cal? Hiend he had captured a few days ago 
which the doctor purchased. Spent early morning photographing the 6 
lion. J.A.L, osught two elenhantiuins and some Large mis and many Arvi- 
canthus nairobi, 14: 9.8. and ™ariton went out to the westward about 
12 miles and returned late at about 10 P.M. He shot a 3d hyeaena and a 
j 
3 Warthog with 7 inch tusks and a * Lion which was apparently a very old 
one with both lower canines broken down to stubs and some of the molars 
and incisors worn avay. She had, hovever, still spots on her sides. 
fwo embryos were found in {61} She was badly hit, the first shot 
breaking her back so that she could not charee. KR. and £.5.0, went 
out for the whole dey but sav no Lions or cheetah. They saw a great 
deal of antelope and sone Hhinos. d.Acle shot several Hepa derun and Dr. 
Hq. shot a young ¢ dix-dik. 25: Hroke camp at noon and moved out to 
some water holes abouth 8 miles to the Westward. J.A.k. caught several 
very large ™atera of a vers light fulvous color. Also one Georhychus. 
Saw only a steinbuck on the way over to the springh. Vent out at dusk 
for bats but shot none. Saw some very amall ones which kept well in 
the thorn trees. 16: Went out in the morning with 7.R., KeR. and Tarl- 
fon. Sat a small herd of “opi with some hal? grown young and several 
lots of G. robertai but none were seoureds Later we (62) located AnSHE 
a herd of 7 @ivaffe. 2 adult ¥, two small young, two half grown young 
and an ola bull. %7.R. shot an old @ and her oalf and a young 2. This 
latéer one was very dark, like an old ¢. The four survivors vema ined 
about all dag and finally after we had skinned the lot they were still 
about & half mile way. 1 gave chase and rode in to within 30 yards 
and photographed them several times. As #00n 48 i stopped chasing they 
stopped and seemed utterly devoid of fear, A d and ¥ and young Ehino 
were seen close by by nearly all the party except me. att. DER 
went out for buck about 11 A.M. and retumed at dusks “Re hed ad 
topi end KR. shot ad, * and young? toph. Dey elyudy and cold, Warked 
on the giraffe skins all day. H.d.0. pared dovn the large one with his 
knife. The young one which ia a ¢. though onlg a fer weeks 014 haa 
heavy horns already (65) than its mother's which are, however, larger 

