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friends with them, treat them well, and they will 

 " do one proud," as the saying is. 



On our return to camp after slaying the aforesaid 

 impalah, which proved to be a single buck and 

 an unusually large one at that, the first thing to 

 be done was to change, bathe in the improvised 

 bathing pool we had made by damming up the 

 river with trees interlaced with thorn bushes, 

 boulders, and mud, eat largely of the excellent fare 

 provided by our Goanese cook (curry powder must 

 invariably be taken on these shooting trips, as the 

 rice part of the business fills up the cracks), and 

 proceed to organize a small party of porters to 

 wander out that morning and the early morning 

 of the following day to scan the heavens for any 

 signs of vultures or marabou storks over the 

 scene of our adventure with the lions, just in case 

 one of them might have been wounded by the 

 snapshots. Birds are the surest sign in the East 

 of the carcase of any defunct animal, wheeling 

 round high in the sky, collecting other friends to 

 the feast spread out for them below. Many and 

 many an animal has been retrieved which had 

 before been regarded as hopelessly lost by the 

 never-failing "sign of the birds." It should also 

 be remembered that a carcase found by means 

 of the "sign of the birds" should be approached 

 with extreme caution the next morning, more 

 especially if the trees around be swarming with 

 birds sitting in them, as it is quite probable 



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