124 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



"The bwana looks in the box; and when he sees what 

 he wants in the box, he makes it go click-click; and 

 when he is at home and wants to see that thing again, 

 he looks in the box and makes it go click-click, and there 

 he sees that thing even though it is far away/' 



This is so good an explanation that I have adopted 

 it. By letting savages see the image on the ground 

 glass and then telling them this, I can get them to pose. 



Found six good water-pools some miles "inland. '^ 



On our way home we jumped a buffalo cow with a 

 calf a week or so old. She trotted away across the 

 open hills, buffalo fashion, nose straight out, slowed 

 down to baby 's capacity as a traveller. Just as she be- 

 gan to calm down, she ran plump into Memba Sasa. 

 Off she went again very frantic, and, as luck would have 

 it, she tried to cross the stream at our camp ford ! The 

 whole camp boiled out to receive her. Poor old buff ! 



We spent the short evening each in his own fashion, 

 I in my canvas chair smoking, staring into the soft 

 darkness or the shifting flames; the men squatted 

 on their heels around their tiny fires, eating quantities 

 of meat and cornmeal, and chattering boisterously. 

 Outside our little dome of light the night businesses 

 of the veldt went forward. Only the most formidable 

 or the most insignificant creatures raised their voices, 

 except in alarm or warning. Lions roared; insects 

 hummed and chirped. Out there in the dark was a 

 different world from that in which we moved so freely 



