I40 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



Twenty -one miles' walking; morning, 58; noon, 80; 

 night, 72. 



August 27. — Took tent without fly, cook load, bed 

 and men 's load, three men, without burden, and staff, 

 and with this small safari struck nearly due south into 

 the supposedly waterless country. Had waterbags, 

 and plan was, if no water was found, to return next day. 



For seven miles we continued in the same type of 

 country, the ridges and rolling hills rising impercep- 

 tibly toward a sort of low system ; and for seven miles 

 the game continued as abundant as ever. Then came 

 recent burning with only a few animals. I had laid my 

 bearing for the outcrop of rocks seen from the camp 

 hill. Got to this, and began to hunt for water. There 

 seemed to be none in the immediate vicinity, but a 

 mile distant, in a queer wide depression full of grass 

 and with a conical rocky kopje in it, I at last found a 

 tiny pool that a little digging turned into a spring. No 

 shade and the water not very good, but w^e hung blan- 

 kets over the tent and boiled the drinkables. 



After a short rest I went out after the first ne- 

 cessity, some animal for meat. Missed a reedbuck 

 twice, and then downed a topi with two shots at 212 

 and 127. Very high wind and hard to hold on. Left 

 the men with the meat, and with the gunbearers pushed 

 on as rapidly as possible to scout the game and water 

 prospects to the southwest. We had a heap long walk, 

 got down the next watershed and found a dry water- 



