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lutely naked, and had his ears bored in Masai fashion, 
so that pieces of wood more than an inch in diameter 
could be thrust through the lower lobes. He seemed 
most willing to help me, said his name was Lagoisi, and 
that I could call upon him to do as I liked as long as 
I was at Rusia. Many Rusia eyed us from a distance, 
but only two could be persuaded to approach. 
They were very much afraid of us, and even after 
Dodson and I had gone out and killed three hartebeests 
for their benefit, they did not appear to trust us. Lagoisi 
left us at sunset to inform the Rusia of our peaceful 
intentions, but returned early the next morning before 
we had started for the corner of the lake. 
He suggested my shooting some meat for the Rusia, 
and as I was only too glad to get an excuse for hunting, 
I started off with four boys after hartebeests. From Count 
Teleki’s description of the Rusia, I thought there could 
be no possible danger from them, so I told Dodson to 
go ahead with the caravan and leave me behind. 
The first animal I came upon I struck squarely in 
the chest with a ball from my .577 as he turned towards 
me. He staggered away as though he were going to 
drop, whereupon I told Karsha to run after him, while 
I took a shot at a second hartebeest, which was stand- 
ing one hundred and fifty yards away. The first shot 
I missed, but the second hit the animal in the _hind- 
quarters, breaking his leg. He got a long way ahead 
of me while I was following him among the bushes, and 
presently I saw a striped hyena running after my quarry. 
I fired at the hyena and killed him, but no sooner 
had he fallen than I saw about twenty hyenas pursuing 
the hartebeest and pulling him down. The hyenas let 
me get within fifty yards of them before they stopped 
their fiendish work of eating away the hind-quarters 
