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to carry in other. This made us rather more meat in 

 hand than we needed for immediate consumption, so we 

 set every one to making jerky. New one on them, but 

 it came out excellently, and we have ever since kept a 

 piece or so about us to chew on. Makes a fine emer- 

 gency lunch.* 



In the evening driver ants started to march through 

 camp. When driver ants start to go anyw'here every- 

 thing else has to stand aside. They are said to eat 

 everything but tin. We headed them off with a line 

 of hot ashes, and then laid a thick barrier of more hot 

 ashes around them, leaving an appropriate exit in the 

 other direction. Dolo got down on his hands and 

 knees, shut his eyes, and was led by another man 

 back and forth all around the donkeys. He carried 

 grass on his head, muttered charms, and when he had 

 finished claimed that his beasts were now quite safe 

 from the chop. A donkey died in the night, and we 

 heard leopards about. 



Morning, 58; night, 56. 



August 16. — Nothing doing at our lion kill. 

 After examining it we went on to the green patch 

 again where our wind theory for wildness was well 

 worked out. Ran against a fine bull eland and killed 

 him with one heart shot from the Springfield. He was 

 a very fine trophy, but was otherwise an unfortu- 



* This supply of jerky lasted us through the whole trip and into the ele- 

 phant country. I do not know why sportsmen do not use more of it. 



