ROUND LAKE NATRON 



I A WOKE with a start. What on earth is 

 that ? Somebody has got into my house ! 

 " Bwana ! bwana ! " (Master ! master !). 

 "Oh, it's only you, you brute!" 



Overnight my friend and I had given orders to 

 be called in heaps of time to get out early to 

 have a try towards the swampy ground round 

 Lake Natron — which is nine-tenths in German 

 territory and the remaining one-tenth in British 

 East Africa — for a big water-buck, which we had 

 seen several times before when proceeding towards 

 the swamp at the first streak of dawn intent on 

 buffalo. 



It is a very sound thing in organizing a day's 

 sport the night before for the next day to make 

 certain agreements as to what is to be shot at. 

 Taking the different habitats of the game into 

 account, as well as their habits, numbers in the 

 district or rarity on the other hand, and the 

 hundred and one different factors that one learns 

 on the spot, this ought invariably to be done. 



For instance, a lion or lions are always allow- 

 able, so are elephants and buffalo. Other antelopes 

 must be taken as their frequency or rarity allows. 



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