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IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA 



CHAP. 



idea of attacking us. In a short time four 

 old men cautiously approached, to find out our 

 intentions and reasons for traversing their country. 

 On hearing that we were quite a peaceable safari 

 merely passing through, they seemed greatly re- 



"a couple of young fowls . 



WERE PERCHED ON A DONKEY. 



lieved and brought a grateful present of eggs and 

 a couple of young fowls. As these were alive, 

 they were perched on a donkey, and so rode 

 along daily until Paul wanted them for the pot. 

 In this neighbourhood we came upon a woolly- 

 headed and much wrinkled old native busily 

 engaged, with all the zest of a schoolboy, in setting a 

 cunningly-made bird trap, in which Mrs. B. took 



