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the wind swung the sights across him and ten feet 

 either side. Snapped at him and gave him a surface 

 wound. He went two miles and lay down again. Broke 

 down his foreshoulder at 310 yards. Sent Sanguiki 

 back for porters and with Memba Sasa took a long 

 circle to the right. Missed a Tommy at 140 yards. 

 At last got a game herd outside some small thorn, 

 through which I crawled on my face until I got a shot 

 at a wildebeeste at 280 yards. Facing me. Hit him 

 well, and raked him twice as he ran, at (about) 300 

 yards and (exactly) 340. 



While Memba Sasa took care of the meat and went 

 for men, I continued on to the top of the swell west- 

 ward, and took compass bearings of the hills so as to 

 know how to cut a river called the Bololedi, reported to 

 us by the savages. From this present camp we cut loose 

 from all native tracks and all native knowledge, and 

 enter absolutely virgin country. 



On the way to camp I picked up a fresh ostrich egg. 

 It made a huge omelette. 



Nine hours. Pretty tired. Safari, i6| miles; I, 

 about 25; elevation, 6,300; morning, 51 ; noon (?); night, 

 64. 



August 12. — Struck directly across country by com- 

 pass by the bearings I took yesterday, and after some 

 hours' march came to the edge of low mountains, or high 

 hills, with easy slopes, sparsely grown with small trees, 

 and valleys between. It had been recently burned ; and 



