I02 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



and advanced beyond it over a burning. Two ani- 

 mals stood side by side on the black soil among the 

 bushes. Glasses discovered them to be roan. I sneaked 

 as near as I could and dropped the first in his 

 tracks as though he had been struck by lightning. 

 The other ran, but stopped an instant to look back, 

 and him, too, I knocked down in the same manner. 

 Distances 252 and 347 yards. Cuninghame and two 

 men remained to attend to these, while I skirted the hill, 

 about halfway up ; for these were all buck, and I now 

 much wanted a doe to complete my collection. A half 

 mile farther on I saw below me a herd, and counted 

 nineteen. This is assuredly the greatest roan country 

 in Africa. At 260 yards I knocked my doe out with 

 one shot. 



We camped near where I had shot the first two, in a 

 grove of great green trees with a spring of clear water, 

 and the hills behind us and the plains before. Late in 

 the afternoon when the sun was low I strolled among the 

 lovely high green trees and enjoyed the ibises, the 

 many reedbuck — and the rhino ! 



Morning, 57 ; noon, 72 ; night, 64. Sent back men for 

 extra loads left at the camp two days back. 



August 19. — Went very early along the edge of the 

 watercourse in the hope that a bushbuck might stray out 

 beyond his cover. Luck was with me, for I ran on two 

 so busily fighting each other that I dropped them both at 

 forty-five yards. Great prizes. Luck is with us here. 



