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looked at camp. I went down in my mosquito boots to 

 get one, but they skipped out. Came on a kongoni at 

 no yards, and shot him for our friends, who leave us 

 to-morrow. 



The Wasonzi tell me it was they who set fire to the 

 grass. 



''Thus the rhino are driven off," they say, "and if 

 there are no rhino the Wanderobo stay away." 



At sundown, the men, carrying the donkey loads and 

 driving the donkeys, came slowly in. The donkeys 

 and one of the mules died at the top of the hill. Shortly 

 after Cuninghame came in after a thirty-mile tramp. 

 Under the little kopje after long search he found a pud- 

 dle of water "as big as his hat," and by digging 

 proved it to be a spring. 



So that determines the direction and distance of our 

 next move. This evening the fire has crept up the 

 other side of a lone mountain peak ten miles away, and 

 has appeared at the top, so it is like a volcano. 



Morning, 50; noon, 66; night, 60. 



August 10. — This is a rest day for the donkeys — and 

 for Cuninghame ! They have both had as much as they 

 need. Again high gale and cold. Walked with Memba 

 Sasa to the Dorodedi, with shotgun, and shot four rock 

 hyraxes, a steinbuck, and some guinea fowl. Out four 

 and a half hours. Loafed, wrote log, etc. Wasonzi 

 departed for home. 



Morning, 52; noon, 64; night, 62. 



