loo THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



nate old warrior. He had one blind eye, carried a 

 healed broken jaw, and had lost the end of his tail! 

 The skin on the back of his neck was two and one 

 quarter inches thick! While the men were attending 

 to the trophy, and pending arrival of meat porters, I 

 took fine close-range pictures of topi and kongoni. 

 Back to camp by noon. 



Late in the afternoon Cuninghame and I went out 

 to lay poison for leopards and I had the luck to knock 

 a Bohur at 120 yards with the .405. Feasted high. 

 Eland tongue is a real delicacy. Two more men sick. 



Morning, 55 ; noon, 78 ; night, 58. 



August 17. — Took a parting look at the lion bait and 

 then set off over the low pass into the other valley. 

 Left Dolo, the donkeys, and the sick men. Instructed 

 them to go back to Windy Camp, where, be it re- 

 membered, some time ago we left two sick men, two 

 sick donkeys, and twelve loads — and to bring up the 

 lot. We left Dolo six men as help. 



Down the slope of the valley beyond the pass the 

 grass was very high and wearisome, and (in spite of 

 soot) we were glad the country behind us had been 

 burned. Many reedbuck leaped from their beds and 

 bounded away, showing only heads and horns. Then 

 Cuninghame saw a big roan standing in the shadow 

 of a little thicket. He was 208 yards away, but by 

 luck I managed to centre his shoulder offhand. Ran 

 into the thicket. Found him there, and brought 



