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appearance, it had just finished an enormous repast. 

 It had never seen a white man and I had never seen 

 such a fat baby, so we stared at each other with 

 mutual enjoyment for some minutes. It was bow- 

 legged, crawling with flies, and very much astonished. 

 A necklace of blue beads and a small piece of string 

 tied round its distended tummy constituted all the 

 available wearing apparel, but it did not seem to want 

 any more, as it threw the piece of string away with an 

 air of great disgust. We made rather friends with 

 each other, and, with its father's approval, I gave 

 it the stump of my cigar, which it proceeded to puff 

 with the air of a connoisseur. 



The chief was a jolly old man, who used to come 

 over to our camp every day with presents of milk 

 and sheep for which he would take no payment, 

 though we delighted his heart with some coils of 

 wire and a few yards of cloth. 



One morning I was aroused by a lion "shouting" 

 in some bushes close to camp, but he did not prolong 

 his visit until daylight. 



The whole week I did nothing but hunt buffalo. 

 I was close to them many times; but the bush 

 was so thick that it was impossible to get a clear 

 view, and I was determined to get a respectable 

 head. 



For three hours one morning we tracked some 

 buffalo spoor. Then the wind changed slightly and 

 we heard a great commotion in the bushes a hundred 

 yards or so ahead. The going was very bad, but we 



