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charge of two rupees for him, and gave Cuninghame 

 the two rupees and a potato. This potato, Cuning- 

 game explained, must be returned with the two rupees. 

 It was a sort of backhanded receipt, or reminder, 

 rather. 



We marched out to railhead in four rather long days. 

 At the end of that we sent back a camp-chair, a good 

 blanket, and twenty rupees to Kurioki. We gave 

 Maragua, the efficient shenzi head man, the other camp- 

 chair and the opera hat. He then much resembled the 

 comic paper idea of the cannibal chief ! 



From November 15-19 I spent in the forests near 

 N'joro looking for bongo. I had eight men and 

 three Wanderobo hunters. Unfortunately five white 

 men hunting colobus pervaded the forest. No white 

 men had been in the district for three years. The 

 Wanderobo said that now the bongo would depart for 

 points unknown and would not be back for four months. 

 That they had departed proved to be the case, so I re- 

 turned. The shenzis gave me a hyrax robe because they 

 said they were sorry that we had had no chance. It is 

 a beautiful thing. On my way back to the station I 

 fired the last shot in Africa at a colobus in the top of a 

 tall tree, and got him very neatly through the neck. 



THE END 



