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accident. They had been there recently, and were suc- 

 cessful, for we found scraps of kongoni, zebra, water- 

 buck, and eland. Later we often came across these 

 savages hunting, and while we never had a chance to 

 see them actually at it — since they always ran when 

 they saw us — we admired the lithe savage pictures 

 they made, stark naked, armed with long bows, slipping 

 from shadow to shadow. The usual method is to drive 

 the game. The bowmen station themselves in the 

 kno-wTi routes and passes by which the beasts are most 

 likely to go. No wonder the game is wild. It has 

 probably been harried by untold generations. The 

 few so killed amount to nothing; but the method 

 trains the rest to run at sight. The zebra here are 

 very noisy, keeping up a perpetual barking day and 

 night. I suppose they have nerves. 



The word to come in this part of Africa is moochie. I 

 wonder if our slang word "to mooch about" came by 

 way of early travellers from here ! 



Two hours forty-five minutes; 7^ miles; hunt, 7 miles; 

 elevation, 4,450; morning, 66; noon, 92; night, 77. 



September 27. — Resolved to move camp a few miles 

 to where I had killed the cheetah, as there seemed to be 

 more game there. On the way we ran into a herd of 

 fifteen roan, and I managed to down one at (about) 

 150 yards before they ran. Found a good shady 

 thicket to camp in with a rain-water puddle near. 

 Cuninghame and I went in different directions to scout. 



