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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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he openveld adjoining the river. These were the common ring-tailed waterbuck, and one bull in particular appeared to carry cjuite a handsome head ; but when shot by W his horns only taped 22j ins., by 8;- ins. in basal cir-cumference, and 12 ins. between tips. In East Africathis fine antelope never reaches the dimensions attainedfurther south. It was noteworthy that during the first half of Januarywe saw here neither zebra nor wildebeest—usually soextremely abundant. But on January 20 a few zebrasappeared ; several troops showed up on the followingday, and after that date they became numerous. Thefirst wildebeest—two old bulls—were observed on ^ So successful is our friend Mr. C. B. Perceval, Game-rangerof British East Africa, in thus reading Natures signs, that sundrynative hunters assert that he can see lions when lying asleep inthe grass at six or seven miles ! 218 ON SAFARI January 22, but it was some days before we saw anymore. By the end of the month, however, fresh troops
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i^ ^t^iSv^lfr A TROPICAL POOL OM ATHI KIVER.Note the hanging nests of weavers. were coming in daily—all, like the zebras, from thesouthward. Our main camp lay between the escarpment afore-said and the river. Behind it arose that abrupt slope, THE ATHI EIVER 219 pierced, within a mile, by the nearest of the frowninglion-ravines; while close in front dawclled the sluggishAthi, Its banks, elsewhere open, here merged in forest-belts, and a deep pool below the camp was emboweredin dense scrub, fringed outside with trees. This weirdpool abounded in tropical scenes. Amidst a variedpopulation, it harboured, we found, a monster hippoand numerous crocodiles. The tall acacias outside werefestooned with pendent nests of weaver-finches, scores ona branch—like a heav) crop of jargonelle pears; inside,also, the bush and palmites overhanging the stagnantwater were laden with nests, some almost dipping thesurface. These belonged to another species. Thepennant-winged nightjar already named above, a

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