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except those I have been fortunate enough to bring 

 back. This was the first time I had seen these beasts ; 

 they are most amusing to watch, when hunting. The 

 rats, which are brown, with short tails, hve in big 

 colonies and dart from burrow to burrow, while the 

 cuberow stands motionless till one of them shows, when 

 he makes a pounce for it. If he is unsuccessful, he seems 

 to lose his temper, and starts digging violently ; but 

 this is only lost labour, as the ground is honeycombed 

 with holes, and every rat is yards away before he has 

 thrown up a pawful. 



I did not reach camp till five that evening. During 

 the day we crossed a steep ridge and three wide grassy 

 valleys. In the evening two men, whom I had left behind 

 at Jarso to buy mules and donkeys, turned up with only 

 a couple of the latter, having, they said, missed me in 

 some way. 



