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high grass plateau with a few scattered thorn trees. 

 Here were again marvellous swarms of game. I should 

 be afraid to say how many we saw in that short walk, 

 mainly topi, zebra, hartebeeste, and wildebeeste, but 

 with a very fair number of Tommy and oribi. Shot a 

 zebra at 207 yards for camp meat. 



Walked 8 miles; morning, 60; noon, 90; night, 70. 



September 6. — Set off on a compass bearing for a 

 reported swamp close under the escarpment. There 

 we hoped to find buffalo. We are now in a triangle 

 framed by a bend of the river and the escarpment, 

 twenty miles by eight or ten. Followed the bearing 

 for a while, then were turned aside for some miles by 

 persistent lion roaring. After a bit ran out of game 

 and into high grass, so gave that up and swung back to 

 our original plan. At this place shot a Tommy three 

 times at 123 yards before he left his feet, though he did 

 not move twenty yards. This ended a long streak of 

 pretty good shooting, for I have killed fifty out of the 

 fifty-three animals last shot at. Now I came due for a 

 rotten spell of two or three days, attributable possibly 

 to noon marching and great heat. After quitting work 

 from twelve to four for a few days I got back my luck. 



We slogged along doggedly over the open country 

 toward the escarpment. The game steadily duninished. 

 About five o 'clock I just scraped a wildebeeste and got 

 no further chance, so camp was meatless. We have 

 had no trouble finding water heretofore, and antici- 



