Archive image from page 279 of Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie; a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in eastern equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 discoveryoflakes01hhne Year: 1894 256 THROUGH MAS AIL AND TO THE BORDERS OF KIKUYU The neighbourhood of Doenye Erok is a regular zoological garden. The steep slopes, especially near the base of the mountain, are clothed with luxuriant vegetation, chiefly acacias, the nickname of erok, or black, originating in the dark colour of the foliage. Moreover, the trees stand well apart and w
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Archive image from page 279 of Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie; a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in eastern equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 discoveryoflakes01hhne Year: 1894 256 THROUGH MAS AIL AND TO THE BORDERS OF KIKUYU The neighbourhood of Doenye Erok is a regular zoological garden. The steep slopes, especially near the base of the mountain, are clothed with luxuriant vegetation, chiefly acacias, the nickname of erok, or black, originating in the dark colour of the foliage. Moreover, the trees stand well apart and without the dense undergrowth usual in tropical Africa, and amongst them roam countless Mpala antelopes and a kind of wild dog. But for the sound of their footsteps and the occasional cry of a small hornbill with a slender red bill and mottled dark - green feathers, absolute silence reigned. We liked go- ing to this wood just to watch the wild creatures in it. The bush - grown steppe beyond the moun- tain was tenanted by numerous rhinoceroses, giraffes, zebras, wild boars, gnus, gazelles, ostriches, bustards, guinea-fowls, and part- ridges. In half an hour's walk Count Teleki wounded four zebras, but he lost them all, as he had gone out alone, and did not like to go too far from the camp. When close home he also brought down an antelope of the size and shape and with the horns of a gazelle, but of the brownish-red colour of a European stag, with white hair on the abdomen. The following day he shot a rhinoceros and a wild boar, having seen two other rhinoceroses, The next afternoon the Count hunted along the eastern base of the mountain, where he was much hindered by HORNS OF GAZELLE (SPECIES UNKNOWN).