Lilongwe to Fort Jameson 



found none of the reported game, though we could 

 see for a considerable distance up and down the 

 dambo. In a country in which belts of forest 

 alternate with open grass lands, the beasts would 

 not leave the shelter of the trees till the sun was 

 down, and they got under cover again at earliest 

 dawn. That afternoon " Curlpapers " and two 

 other of my machilla boys, who had gone off to 

 a village to buy food, lighted on a herd of kudu in 

 the forest, but their report came too late to be 

 of use. 



Up to the time we reached Kalolo the weather 

 on the plateau had been delightfully cool. A 

 sudden change had come, however ; the sun became 

 fiercely hot, and even the nights were very stuffy. 

 This continued for the next few days and culmin- 

 ated in the three days' heavy rain we had on the 

 Bua, which, though we did not know it at the time, 

 was to spoil our sport in North-East Rhodesia. 



Next morning (5th October) we followed the 

 course of the Namitete River until we reached the 

 high road we had left at Kalolo, and here we 

 breakfasted. The only game we saw except an 

 oribi, which came in usefully for the pot, was a 

 young bull eland with two cows. 



As we were now a day behind time, we thought 

 that in place of going another day's march to the 

 westward, as we had intended, we might just as well 

 follow the Namitete to its junction with the Bua, 

 thinking that we were as likely to find game along 

 its course as anywhere else. In this we were 

 mistaken, for though the country was as "gamey" 



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