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best bits ! They all made camp right next the carcase. 

 Our men constructed racks on which they laid strips 

 of meat and beneath which they built fires. Several 

 of the Kavirondos stripped and sat humped over the 

 blaze while friends carefully greased them from top to 

 toe with elephant fat. 



November lo. — Our job finished, we got up very 

 early and prepared to move. All the shenzis were 

 sleeping the sleep of the stuffed — all but the very aged 

 man. He was up bright and early, keen to capture 

 any stray tin cans. As soon as we were packed up, he 

 appropriated the best of our camp-sites and meat- 

 racks. He was certainly an enterprising old person, 

 paying attention to nothing or nobody that had not to 

 do with the business in hand. He would probably live 

 right there until his hoard of meat — which he would 

 dry — would be quite gone. Poor old chap! This was 

 undoubtedly his last raid. 



We marched back out of the forest, and along the 

 spoor by which we had come in. Many more Wander- 

 obo were hastening in to the meat. I do not suppose 

 a single ounce of that great carcase would be wasted! 

 The morning was clear, and Mt. Kenia with its bold 

 crags and glittering snows was for once visible in its 

 entirety. It is a marvellous mountain, but we had not 

 long to enjoy it, for soon it began to gather, a wisp at 

 a time, the thick mantle with which it daily enshrouds 

 itself. 



