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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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oo <; 1^ AFTER ORYX AND ELAND—BARINGO 11 befallen. He had come across a gigantic pig whichdwarfed the big wart-hogs (animals we saw daily) intocomparative insignificance. Wo had neither of us atthat time heard of the existence of the giant forest-hog (Hylochoerus) recently discovered in these regions,and described, from some fragments of skin and bone,in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1904,
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KOKI BrSTAIU). Male : weight ■251bs., span 8 ft., has head like a bittern. p. 193, though I now remembered having hastily glancedthrou2;h these a nioiit or two before sailing;. Whether theanimal seen here was Hylochoerus, or otherwise, remainsunproven ; but the following is my brothers narrative— It was on the Mugitani River that I had my firstsight of elands. Leaving camp at daybreak, we hadtraversed the scattered forest that covers the bush-tangled, boulder-strewn hills above that river, and comeupon a level plain, a mile across, stretching to the foot-hills of Laikipia beyond. Upon this plain was a herd of 78 ON SAFARI elands about fifty strong, mostly females and youngbeasts, but including a single large bull whose brisketappeared to sweejD the ground. They had not noticedus, and their onward direction indicated that they wouldfeed past quite near. What slight wind there was blewin our favour, so we lay down in the deep grass andwaited. Presently the whole herd filed past from

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