322 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



From the koodoo camp the two hunters went to Lake 

 Hannington, a lovely lake, with the mountains rising sheer 

 from three of its sides. The water was saline, abounding 

 with crocodiles and hippos; and there were myriads of fla- 

 mingoes. They were to be seen swimming by thousands 

 on the lake, and wading and standing in the shallows; and 

 when they rose they looked like an enormous pink cloud; it 

 was a glorious sight. They were tame; and Kermit had no 

 difficulty in killing the specimens needed for the Museum. 

 Here Kermit also killed an impalla ram which had met with 

 an extraordinary misadventure. It had been fighting with 

 another ram, which had stabbed it in the chest with one horn. 

 The violent strain and shock, as the two vigorous beasts 

 bounded together, broke off the horn, leaving the broken 

 part, ten inches long, imbedded in the other buck's chest; 

 about three inches of the point being fixed firmly in the 

 body of the buck, while the rest stuck out like a picket pin. 

 Yet the buck seemed well and strong. 



Two days after leaving Lake Hannington they camped 

 near the ostrich-farm of Mr. London, an American from 

 Baltimore. He had been waging war on the lions and 

 leopards, because they attacked his ostriches. He had 

 killed at least a score of each, some with the rifle, some 

 with poison or steel traps. The day following their arrival 

 London went out hunting with Kermit and Tarlton. They 

 saw nothing until evening, when Kermit's gun-bearer, 

 Kassitura, spied a leopard coming from the carcass of a 

 zebra which London had shot to use as bait for his traps. 

 The leopard saw them a long way off and ran; Kermit 

 ran after it and wounded it badly, twice; then Tarlton got 

 a shot and hit it; and then London came across the 



