128 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



a zebra for lion bait at 230 yards with a shoulder and 

 a raking shot. Saw quantities of game, as usual, in 

 the same sort of country we had been hunting in, in- 

 cluding both Nakuru and Coke 's hartebeestes, separate 

 and distinct, the former as wild as ever, the latter big, 

 red, and curious, as usual.* Killed one of each, took 

 both heads, hung the meat in trees, and returned to 

 camp. Coke's 105 yards; Nakuru in high grass at 130 

 yards; two shots, one miss, one hit. 



About midnight a pack of baboons travelling along 

 the course of the stream blundered into camp, and 

 there was a fine row. Evenings rather dull and lone- 

 some; no light to read and nobody to talk to. My 

 Swahilij is now about as good as any one 's, so I sit at 

 the gunbearers' fire a good deal, and we all swap yarns. 



This march 2f miles; elevation, 4,950; morning, 61; 

 noon, 79; night, 73. 



* Saw some apparently hybrids. 



t Of course I mean the porters' crude Swahili, not the complicated coast 

 language. 



