i62 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



wanted for camp. Just couldn't hold steady. Loaded 

 the meat aboard the men I had kept free of loads for the 

 purpose, and struck across after the safari. Country 

 the same as usual, and I saw heaps of game. Found a 

 human skull very much chewed, and was interested to 

 see how thick the bone was, and how few convolutions 

 the brain cavity showed. Some Wanderobo hunter 

 dead of thirst, wild beasts, or disease. Caught the 

 safari at 10:30, and almost immediately after saw an- 

 other beautiful sing-sing only slightly smaller and of 

 the same type as my other good one. He was shy, but 

 by careful stalking got within 260 yards and downed 

 him. At noon we came to the river, had lunch, and set 

 about crossing it in reverse order to the former process. 

 Two hours saw us at our old camp. The fire had been 

 through since we were there and the ground was black, 

 but our thicket uninjured. 



Five and one half hours; 14J miles; morning, 59; 

 noon (?); night, 74. 



The net results of our crossing the river at this point, 

 then, were as follows: The open country below the 

 high abrupt escarpment is about twenty miles long by 

 about ten in its greatest width. It is cut by a number 

 of watercourses, some of them wooded, but none nor- 

 mally containing running water. A very thin growth 

 of thorn scrub covers what may be considered open, 

 grassy, rolling country. Here and there are low, 

 rocky, circular outcropping hillocks crowned with green 



