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sneezing noise behind me. This made me prick up 

 my ears ; I looked round and saw walking quietly 

 out a beautiful little male dik-dik. I rolled him 

 over with my shot gun, pulled out my knife and 

 rushed after him. He was struggling and bounding 

 about on the ground when I got up to him, when 

 I made several vigorous stabs at him with my 

 knife, but, to my great chagrin, he scampered away. 

 I ran after him, getting well torn by the bushes, 

 and found him lying dead just at the foot of a thorny 

 bush. This was the first African animal I shot, 

 and, although he was so small, I felt as proud of him 

 as a cat would with her first mouse. 



At the time the dik-dik came out I heard pigs 

 grunting in a little dell below me, but I could not see 

 them at all. I went back to camp, and hearing that 

 Kirkham was up in the missionaries' house I sent 

 word to him that I had come in. I was sitting in 

 the tent when suddenly I saw a fair, rather good- 

 looking, slim man walking up to me ; he was dressed 

 in a frock-coat and forage cap — a sort of undress 

 general's uniform. It had a very strange effect to see 

 this man walk up to one in an African jungle — his 

 dress, too, not such as one would expect to sec in 

 those parts. 



We soon became the best of friends. He told mc he 

 would do everything in his power to get us shooting, 



