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- a named year class. This group does no work, but roams from
place to place seeking the girls where they find them. In due
course they marry + enter another estate. The ones we saw were
all in fine new orange red cloaks, their heads heavily ochred +
each decorated as well in ways we could not see from where
we were. Spears as always.
During the last 2 hours of daylight we cruised
the reserve + saw 7 rhino [rhinoceros], 4 elephant several isolated gnu.
many Grants [gazelle] + impala + some Tommies [Thompson gazelle]. One hyena, 4 giraffe
also 7 or 8 tourist wagons. There are tire tracks all
over the flat land + clouds of dust. A major development
would be one good road winding carefully so as to
bring much of the best range under view.
Mount Kilimanjaro made a magnificent back drop
the prize of the day however was a pair of bat-
eared fox just out of their den. Their very quick yet
deliberate actions, and constant state of alert were all [word crossed out]
very obvious characteristics.
June 29, 1967 Nairobi.
Left our hilltop in Amboseli just as the top of Kilimanjaro
turned pink in the early dawn. Three large bull elephants
were on the flat below us. We drove N. [north] + then through the flatlands
to visit the Bat-eared Fox den again. Unfortunately they had already gone in
for the day. We then crossed the dry lake seeing zebra + gazelle en route
At the far side in the scattered acacias we came on a great herd of
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