Soldiering and Sport In Uganda 



returned unsuccessful, as usual, although one had 

 come across the herd of elephant of the previous 

 night, and reported them very small. So I decided 

 to strike camp and return, my leave being nearly 

 up. As we were packing a herd of zebra appeared, 

 and I took a snapshot of them with my camera. 

 Then some wild hogs arrived at the double and 

 made for a dirty pit-hole of watery mud. I took 

 a pot-shot at the largest of these, and was fortunate 

 in getting him bang through the heart. This was 

 obvious luck, as the beast was half in the hole and 

 I fired in a great hurry, as they make off directly 

 they see you, which does not take long, and they 

 never halt till out of sight. All my men maintained 

 I had missed it, as they did not see it fall into the 

 hole. When 1 sent them to look and they came 

 across it, they were greatly surprised. I found that 

 the meat is looked on as a great delicacy, and our 

 cook being slack in grasping my portion, the flesh 

 was freely fought for and divided up among the 

 "safari." 



After five hours of hard marching in the heat of 

 the day through endless "gubba," only relieved by 

 a herd of hartebeeste, which the orderly had the 

 mischance to frighten away before I could get a 

 shot in, I was greatly refreshed by the sight of 

 some cool looking "shambas." Striking the main 

 road back to Kabula, I found my camp. We 

 were actually about two-and-a-half hours north of 

 Kabula. A sfood method of calculatino- time and 

 distance in the "gubba" is to look at the hill or 



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