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Title: On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929
Subjects: Hunting -- Africa, British East Birds -- Africa, British East Africa, British East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o 3 HUNTING IN THE RIFT VALLEY 13 rely on a mistaken confidence that mere altitude in thecrag-faces lent security against a rifle-ball. It was,nevertheless, difficult enough to distinguish preciselytheir,small grey forms, 300 ft. above, from the brokenrocks that surrounded them. Next morning, while watching a group of reedbuckson the crags, in hopes of securing an opportunity tostalk, suddenly three impala (one good buck) appearedon the hill above. Then, to our disgust, six Masaiwalked right across our front, taking not the slightestnotice till we hailed them with a request that theywould be good enough to go somewhere else. Each ofthese savages carried the usual double-edged spear andcustomary ornaments (such as quarter-pound baccytins) stuck in their ears, being otherwise stark naked.Later on we discovered that these were the advance-guard of a migrating tribe, a body of which had sj^entthe night in one of the huge volcanic chasms, where theymight have enjoyed warm baths free. It i

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