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something like ten hours before assistance arrived 

 from the camp. Here his leg was bound up in the 

 position it was in when at Maclontsie, as crooked 

 as a bow. 



Shortly after going to Maclontsie there arrived 

 a party on a shooting expedition, the Marquess 

 of Winchester,t hen known as J. Paulet, and the 

 Hon. J. Murray, Master of Elibank, en route for 

 Mashonaland. These g-entlemen were our o-uests 

 at the camp for about ten days, during which time 

 we put in two or three shooting excursions. In 

 one of these we camped close to a swamp on the 

 Monopololi river. Here duck and spur-winged 

 geese were plentiful. We had only just turned 

 into our blankets for the nigrht when we were 

 suddenly roused by awful howls coming from a 

 pointer who had managed to reach a ham intended 

 for breakfast, which had been hunor as we thought 

 well out of reach of marauders, and to which the 

 pointer was found hanging suspended on the hook. 

 After releasinof the unfortunate dosf we turned in 

 again, shortly to be disturbed by the cook, who had 

 been stung in the neck by a scorpion. I believe 

 the proper treatment for a sting from these insects 

 is to rub in ammonia, but of this we had none. 

 Still, with the external and internal application of 

 whisky, we got the patient well enough to carry 

 out his duties. I believe some animals are immune 



