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try which I was in. I felt very seedy, and disinclined 

 to do anything ; and so having gone straight through 

 this patch of jungle I came to the little stream again, 

 where I sat down by a pool, and waited there for most 

 of the day, in hopes of some animal coming down to 

 drink. Barrakee, who had been out in a different 

 direction with H., not long after I had been here, 

 came up, and H. went on down the stream, while 

 Barrakee and myself watched over the pool. A little 

 gazelle came to drink : instead of my waiting in order 

 to get a broadside shot, I fired at it while it was 

 looking at me, and the result was to break one of its 

 fore-legs. Barrakee rushed after it, but we saw no 

 more of it. I then mounted my mule, which had been 

 grazing close by, and rode home into camp. Our 

 three days were over, our provisions finished, and we 

 resolved the next day, which was Sunday, to start for 

 home. 



Feb. 14. — I was worse to-day, and we started early 

 for our camp on the Tackazzee. The servants, while 

 we had been absent, had, according to arrangement, 

 moved the camp away from the river ; Fisk had been 

 left in charge. The reason of this move was they 

 were all very much frightened of the Baria, and 

 thought, as we should be absent with our guns, that 

 it would be better if they got away from the river, 

 by whose banks the Baria are supposed to be 



