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Article: Bushbuck on Mount Kenya: in this excerpt form his recent book, Search for The Spiral Horn, Boddington relives the early safari that sparked his fascination with one of the most elusive of Africa's spiral-horned antelope.
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The first spiral-horned antelope I ever saw fed out into a clearing in the late afternoon. We were on the lower slopes of the great mountain that the Kikuyu reckon to be the home of God. This was probably His backyard; the house of rock and eternal snow was several miles away, visible across an ascending green carpet of forest and bamboo. We had spent the morning in that thick cover hunting buffalo, and in the afternoon we had dropped down to it country of thornbush slopes and grassy valleys.
We were on a west-facing side hill, glassing across a valley onto another thornbush slope broken by scattered clearings. About five o'clock, perhaps an hour before sunset, a ...