262 AFRICAN ADVENTURE STORIES 



sleep, I started on, feeling with my shotgun 

 before taking a step. Every fifteen minutes I 

 stopped and fired a single shot. In this way 

 I must have travelled for an hour and then 

 fired another shot. The echo from the moun- 

 tain peak came from behind me, so I knew that 

 I had turned too far to the left. Facing about, 

 I had taken but a few steps when far off in 

 the distance came the unmistakable report of a 

 rifle. I leaped into the air from joy and began 

 shouting and waving my hands, but on second 

 thought realised that Brown was yet too far 

 off to see me. 



"Fifteen minutes later I fired my last car- 

 tridge and received a reply from very near, and 

 then I heard Brown shout: 



"'What in thunder are you doing up there? 

 If you think I'm coming up after you you're 

 jolly well mistaken.' 



"'I can't come down; I'm snow-blind,' I 

 shouted back. 



"'Where have you been all this time?' he in- 

 quired as he came up. 



"'Wandering about on the snow all night; 

 and I took a fine toboggan slide to wind up 

 with!' I answered. 



