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my knife into her throat, she was very quick with her 

 tusks and once nearly caught my shin. I lost the rest 

 of the afternoon's shooting, having to send back the 

 only boy I had' with me to camp, to ask for people to 

 carry the game home. We had liver and bacon for 

 breakfast the next morning, and it was excellent ; 

 also pork chops. 



Jan. 9. — This morning, after breakfast, I went 

 out shooting, accompanied by Brou, and saw some 

 dik-dik, but did not fire at them, as I had already 

 killed three specimens. We came to a large hole 

 in a bank, not unlike a fox-earth, and I heard some 

 beasts running about inside, which Brou said were 

 pigs. I never heard of pigs going to ground before, 

 but he assured me they did so in Abyssinia. 



He and I set to work to stop the hole, and we put 

 a boy over it to watch. I retired to a shady spot, and 

 told Brou to go home and send me out some lunch, 

 and bring people (some of our bullock-drivers and 

 donkey-men) to try to dig out and unearth the pigs, or 

 whatever they were. In due course of time the lunch 

 appeared, and, shortly after, Brou, with some Shoho 

 Arabs, our drivers. We tried very hard to get at the 

 animals, but they beat us ; the earth was too deep, and 

 ran in among roots ; the soil also was very hard for 

 digging with such wretched tools as the Arabs brought. 

 I longed for an English ferreter with his spade. 



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