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on a family of bush pig, which, however, eluded us. 

 Whilst searching for them I turned a wart-hog down 

 to Burton, who killed him. 



On the bank of a stream, some way farther on, I 

 heard some baboons making a great noise and found 

 two more bush pig close by. I stalked them through 

 very long wet grass and killed the sow, which was 

 immediately charged by the boar. Their tushes are 

 quite small. Hassan assumed an air of great disgust, 

 and would not go near her while the other gun- 

 bearer chopped out her tushes with a native sword. 



There were very large numbers of hartebeest 

 about, and, as we had no specimens of the Cokes 

 variety, we killed several. The total bag for the day 

 was five hartebeest, of which Burton had killed three, 

 one bush pig, one wart-hog, and one bushbuck. We 

 had had a long day and were both pretty done, when, 

 at four o'clock, we got into camp by a muddy little 

 swamp. 



The next day we had another tiring walk, as we 

 made a wide detour in order to avoid several flooded 

 rivers. It was, comparatively speaking, an unin- 

 teresting march, and we saw no game at all. We 

 passed a good many villages, but these ceased after we 

 had crossed the confluence of three rivers spanned by 

 a very rickety native suspension bridge hung on 

 creepers. 



There were large numbers of beautiful little 

 butterflies about, which looked like living pansies, 

 though I do not know their name. Here and there 



