Bound for Khartoum Once More 



of Uganda's export trade, need looking after even 

 more, if possible, than other and lesser beasts. 



On reaching Bug^uno-u we found that the launch 

 and boats had not yet arrived, so we were able 

 to turn our attention to a herd of elephants which 

 were wandering about something- under fifteen 

 miles away. Their spoor had been found and 

 was being followed up, but two days' search failed 

 to locate them with any certainty. As they were 

 on trek at this time of the year, a march after 

 them would have been somewhat of a wild-goose 

 chase till they settled down for a bit, added to 

 which was the fact that they had not been viewed, 

 and so there might not have been a shootable bull 

 amongst them. Accordingly, whilst the search 

 parties were out, I turned my attention to the 

 large flocks of pintail and whistling teal which 

 frequented a marshy corner near by. When en- 

 grossed in this pastime my orderly became aware 

 of the presence of a small school of hippo dis- 

 porting themselves in a sheltered bay of Lake 

 Albert. Having heard the report of the gun they 

 wisely kept too far out to enable me with certainty 

 to bring off an effective shot, so some special 

 plan had to be formulated. We scraped a long 

 trench in the sand well above water mark in pre- 

 paration for the morrow, when we brought a lot 

 of natives with us to try and hoax the hippo. 

 Having got into this hole with one gun-bearer, I 

 sent all the rest of the mob away, telling them to 



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