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National Geographic : 1925 Feb
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CAIRO TO CAPE TOWN, OVERLAND while we hunted lions. This saved buying and carrying a tent. A GIGANTIC ZOO IN TIlE ()oPEN More or less, I have seen the 1 sights of the world, but I shall never forget the thrill as we came into the Kedong Valley, five miles from this quarantine station. I expected to see big game in Africa: I had seen some. IBut my idea of hunting (purely academic) was to go out and search around till an animal ap peared on the horizon; then take a quick shot at it and trust to luck. Imagine, then, the spec tacle of thousands of animals within the radius of a few hun dred yards of our car, grazing peacefully, such animals as one usually sees in the zoo. \Ve were amazed and delighted. We stopped the car for a bet ter view and to hold conversa- S tion with two naked braves, who, all dressed up, were journeying toward some trusting place. Their hair, raised in pompon fashion, was matte(l with an oily red mud and braided into little ropes. Their bodies were painted with eccentric spirals in white. They wore rings in their noses and ears. They were very grand and very polite and very curious, especially about Porter. The Kedong Valley consists The of a series of gently undulating this w of a series of gently undulating Masai plains with pocketlike grazing will u grounds intruding into the foot- down hills. Occasional shaggy out- ally croppings of rocks, hummocks the fiei and ledges provide shelter for the game and points of vantage for the hunter. A ZEIlRA SAVES AN AMATEUR'S REPUTATION Next morning we turned out at day break. The grass, four feet high, was wet. Before we walked Ioo yards we were soaked to the waist. No one cared for that, because the most interesting sport Photograph hy II. T. Cowling A MASAI LION KILLER headdress, made from the mane of a lion, shows arrior has killed a lion with his own spear. The prefer buffalo hide for the big oval shields, but se oxhide. The leather is sewed on a hoop, and the center, on the inside, is a broad lath. Usu signs on the shield show the hunter's clan. The of the Tanganyika and Kenya uplands are one of rcest tribes in Africa (see text, page 192). in all the world was before us. The golf mania is as nothing compared to the big game mania. That first morning the rising sun found the plains full of elands, kongoni, ante lopes, Grant's gazelle, Thomson's gazelle, zebras, ostriches, giraffes, hyenas, foxes, wild dogs, jackals-literally, thousands of animals. We forgot that we were there to shoot and stopped in wonder to admire. 193
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