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The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had 

 got inside the huge body, and had then bitten a hole 

 through the abdominal wall of tough muscle and thrust 

 his head through. The wedge-shaped head had slipped 

 through the hole all right, but the muscle had then 

 contracted, and the hyena was fairly caught, with its 

 body inside the elephant's belly and its head thrust out 

 through the hole. We took several photos of the beast 

 in its queer trap. 



After breakfast we rode back to our camp by the 

 swamp. Akelcy and Clark were working hard at the 

 elephant skins ; but Mrs. Akeley, Stevenson, and 

 McCutcheon took lunch with us at our camp. They 

 had been having a very successful hunt. Mrs. Akeley 

 had to her credit a fine maned lion and a bull elephant 

 with enormous tusks. This was the first saffiri we had 

 met while we were out in the field ; though in Nairobi, 

 and once or twice at outlying bomas, we had met men 

 about to start on, or returning from, expeditions ; and 

 as we marched into Meru we encountered the safari of 

 an old friend, A\'illiam Lord Smith — " Tiger " Smith — 

 who, with Messrs. Brooks and Allen, was on a trip 

 which was partly a hunting trip and partly a scientific 

 trip imdertaken on behalf of the Cambridge Museum. 



From the 'Xzoi we made a couple of days' march to 

 Lake Sergoi, which we had passed on our way out : a 

 reed-fringed pond, surrounded by rocky hills which 

 marked about the limit to which the Boer and English 

 settlers who were taking up the country had spread. 

 f All along our route we encountered herds of game. 

 Sometimes the herd would be of only one species ; at 

 other times we would come across a great mixed herd, 

 the red hartebeest always predominating ; while among 

 them might be zebras, showing silvery white or dark 



