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eating, one part of their flesh being white and 

 the other brown. Wc agreed to-day that here at 

 Adiaboo we should buy donkc}'S to carry our things 

 down to the Tackazzee, so we told the chief to get 

 us as many as he could. He said that to-morrow 

 he would tell the people round to bring in what 

 donkeys they had for sale. I went out in the evening 

 into the marshy ground which lay below our camp, to 

 try to get some snipe ; I only saw one, but he was too 

 far off for a shot. We had a very good dinner to- 

 night, for we had killed fresh meat, which avc were 

 very glad to get, as the two clays that we had been 

 travelling we had had very little with us, although 

 K. had made every preparation for us, and boiled 

 down some excellent jell}% which he had corked up 

 in a few empty gin-bottles and carefully placed in 

 H.'s tin-case among his clothes ; but, whether it 

 was the heat or the shaking that the tin-case got on 

 the journey I do not know : when we opened it, in 

 order to take some jelly for soup, we found that the 

 corks had flown out of the bottles, and a sort of 

 mayonnaise had been made of H.'s socks, boots, and 

 trousers. Such are the pleasures of rough travelling ! 

 Feb. I. — To-day we began buying donkeys, and a 

 more disagreeable task I had never had to do ; such 

 haggling and bargaining as had to be undergone was 

 enough to drive one mad. They brought up the 



