The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-02-11
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And they have chosen their stop
ping place well, for here COM
mences the vast sweep of country
stretching up to the forests of
Kikuyu, than which, perhaps,
there it no place in the world
more calculated to delight the
heart of a sportsman. This Maxim
du districta makes an ideal shoot
ing country. The game is not
perhaps so plentiful as in the Athi
Plains, which'we shall see by and
by, but here we have excellent
natural cover, which enables one
to practice perfection the art OF
stalking, that the most necessary
OF accomplishments for a SUCCESS
full hunter.
The open bush, relieved by
lofty trees, provides a succession
of surprises TO the hunter. Now a
bush buck will start up and bound
away; now we catch sight through
the foliage of the graceful horns of
the stately water buck as he crops
the heritage all unconscious of im-
pending danger. In the open
glades we shall probably see a
herd of massive Gland, or perhaps,
the oryX, with their almost zebra
like markings and tapering horns.
The delicate looking mpala is
also sure to be seen bounding
gracefully along, while the chance
of coming on rhinoceros or lion
will lend extra excitement to our
walk. In fact, our friends will
be poor shots indeed if they do not
account for some of this selection.
I'VE wish them luck, and tax
ing our seats again as we hear the
whistle of the train, we throw
away books and papers, as we
want to see all we can for the next
hundred miles or so through the
thick Of the game country, and
/ there is no doubt that we could
see the like from the windows of
no other railroad carriage in the
world.
The plains are also the habitat
Of the huge African rhinoceros.
who hunts his enemy by scent, and
is extremely short sighted, so that
on several occasions he has tried
conclusions with the railway en-
CINE, much to his discontinue
Giraffe, warthogs. iackals, hyenaS
and a host of other four footed
beasts, cranes and bustards and
other feathered varieties all help
to swell the population of the ami
NAL kingdom.
THE lion, too, is still in evil
dence, as we notice by the tfocks
Of vultures soaring in the air in
the distance ready to pick the
bones of his latest kill"
There is no closed season in
Africa on lions, leopards and croc-
odiles, and Of these the president
and his party may shoot as many
as they like. But, having declin-
ed the offer of a special permit,
extended by the British Colonial
Office, the ordinary license, which
the president will take out on his
arrival at Mombasa, will restrict
him and each member of his party
to the following:
Two male elephants, two rhln-
oceroses. ten Important, Il ante
lope, including two kudos; ten
wild pigs, ten smaller cats, ten
jackals, two gembok, and one
bongo; two zebras, two cheetahs,
two aard wolves, ten chevrota1ns,
two colobi or other fur monkeys,
two marabou storks, two ostriches,
two egrets and one chimpanzee.
He will be forbidden to shoot
giraffes, wild asses, Gland, noun
tain zebra, female or young ele-
plants. vultures of any species,
saddle-bi storks, whaleheaded
storks, crowned cranes, okapi,
female buffalo, female or young
ostriches and Speke's tragetaphus
female.
the politicians. If they could
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