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key-driver as he carried it home. I found that the 

 animal had been hit by three bullets ; one of these was 

 a very curious shot : when I had fired at him with 

 tlie Express, and thought it was a miss, the bullet 

 had entered and exactly divided the hartebeest's tail 

 as he was galloping straight away from me. This 

 shot must have entered his entrails and stopped him 

 considerably ; the two other bullets were the shots 

 that broke the hock of one of his hind-legs and the 

 fetlock-joint of the other. There was great rejoicing 

 amongst the servants and donkey-drivers, who had 

 abundance to eat ; and three long strings of jerked 

 meat might be seen festooning the trees near camp. 

 They dried the meat on the leather thongs with which 

 the baggage was tied on the donkeys ; these thongs 

 were stretched from tree to tree. 



I returned to camp completely done up ; and I do 

 not think the chase after the deer, under the hot sun, 

 did me very much good ; but still a little sport, when 

 you have been ill for some time, cheers you very much. 

 I had been trying to make little snares to catch small 

 birds with, and especially the doves, that came down 

 in great quantities to drink at the water-pools. It 

 was rather amusing to watch them on these occa- 

 sions, but they were far too wary to be caught by 

 such clumsy contrivances. 



March 3. — Went out this morning to look for some 



