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From the koodoo camp the two hunters went to 

 Lake Hannington, a lovely lake, with the mountains 

 rising sheer from three of its sides. The water was 

 saline, abounding with crocodiles and hippos ; and there 

 were myriads of flamingos. They were to be seen 

 swimming by thousands on the lake, and wading and 

 standing in the shallows ; and when they rose they 

 looked like an enormous pink cloud. It was a glorious 

 sight. They were tame ; and Kermit had no difficulty 

 in killing the specimens needed for the Museum. Here 

 Kermit also killed an impalla ram which had met with 

 an extraordinary misadventure. It had been fighting 

 with another ram, which luid stabbed it in the chest 

 with one horn. The \ iolent strain and shock, as the 

 two vigorous beasts boimded together, broke off the 

 horn, leaving the broken part, ten inches long, imbedded 

 in tiie other buck's chest, about three inches of the 

 point being fixed firmly in the body of the buck, while 

 the rest stuck out like a picket pin. Yet the buck 

 seemed well and strong. 



Two days after leaving Lake Hannington they 

 camped near the ostrich farm of Mr. London, an 

 American from Baltimore. He had been waging war 

 on the lions and leopards, because they attacked his 

 ostriches. He had killed at least a score of each, some 

 with the rifie, some with poison or steel traps. The 

 day following their arrival London went out hunting 

 with Kermit and Tarlton. They saw nothing imtil 

 evening, when Kermit's gun-bearer, Kassitura, spied a 

 leopard coming from the carcass of a zebra which 

 London had shot to use as bait for his traps. The 

 leopard saw them a long away off and ran. Kermit ran 

 after it and wounded it badly, twice ; then Tarlton got 

 a shot and liit it ; and tlien London came across the 



