Buffalo 
what difficult and nasty job. The hole in the 
skull being held up-stream, the water forces the 
portions of brain out as it is mashed up with a 
short stick. After the skins had been well 
rubbed with alum and saltpetre, the thick lips 
were sliced in order to let the preservative enter 
the skin more freely. Chancing to go to the river, 
I found some of my boys there also, indulging in 
awash. Instead of soap they used a concave piece 
of burnt or charred wood, with which to scrub 
their skins. I threw Cooe a lump of yellow soap, 
which pleased him immensely, and in a few 
minutes he was a white nigger externally. The 
selfish rascal would not give a bit of it to any 
of the other boys, so I doled them out a bar of 
yellow soap between them on my return to camp, 
an attention which cost little, but which was 
most highly appreciated ! 
That night lions were roaring all round us, 
and quite close, too close, in my opinion, to be 
pleasant. Weddell and I had just turned in 
when some large animal must have run up 
against one of the long guy ropes that were 
fastened to the ridge and end-poles, shaking the 
tent violently. ‘“‘ That’s a lion!” said Weddell; 
but on the other hand it might have been a 
hyena. It is incidents such as these that make 
life stirring. These men who live among such 
happenings take things as a matter of course; 
they are so used to such episodes that familiarity 
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