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yelled. M'ganga, his conventional soul outraged by 

 the row, went up and told them they must stop, that 

 the bwanas wanted to sleep ! For sheer nerve that took 

 the cake, but he got away with it. He might have 

 been speared, but they actually called off the festivi- 

 ties! 



Morning, 62; noon, 71; night, 66. Rain in evening. 



September 14. — Sent eight men back to help our 

 donkeys with stores. Cuninghame took fourteen 

 and went elephant scouting for three weeks. I took 

 nine regular porters and six savages and struck south. 

 We were also accompanied by half a dozen of the sul- 

 tan 's men for meat. Shortly I got a chance and 

 dropped two topi before the little herd drew beyond 

 range. Passed many houses,* and so out across a 

 beautiful green plain about four miles in diameter. 

 Wildebeeste and topi in great numbers were all about, 

 but very wild, due probably to being driven by the 

 savages. 



Myeru's head man with two followers had kept on 

 with us, although most of the rest of his men had 

 dropped back with the meat. He still lived in hopes. 

 Now he moved up to my elbow. With painstaking care 

 he pointed out to me each perfectly obvious herd. I re- 

 mained impervious to hints. About noon he sighed 



*This country must have been long at peace, judging from the number of 

 isolated homes built out everywhere. That it has not always been so is 

 sufficiently proved by the ruins of old villages perched high and fortified 

 in the rocks. 



