Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



thing shipshape and making plans for the 

 morrow. 



Early next morning, some time before dawn, I 

 set out on my first day's shoot, hoping that, 

 having started in the dark, I should be able to 

 catch, on their way back to their feeding grounds 

 about two or three miles inland, any animals that 

 mieht have drunk at the river later than usual. 



We had made good progress by the time it 

 became lisfht enouo-h to see, and the first thing- 

 we came on were three roan, a nice bull and two 

 cows. So I started in for a stalk. Soon, how- 

 ever, something startled them, and they were off 

 down wind like a shot. We trudged along in 

 silence, and when I picked them up again through 

 my glasses, I found they had joined a herd of tiang. 

 This discovery made me all the more keen, as 

 I had never come across the latter before. I 

 continued the stalk. 



As luck would have it, I now got mixed up, in 

 medias res, with a large flock of guinea-fowl, with 

 which the country was simply teeming, and I was 

 forced to wait so as to let them get my wind and 

 run away, instead of making them take wing and 

 fly in a chorus of cackling shrieks, and so giving 

 the antelopes the office that there was danger to 

 themselves on foot. 



That took some time, but when I cautiously 

 raised my head under cover of a bush, it was all 

 right ; the creatures I was stalking were still there, 



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