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Returned to camp and found Cuninghame sleeping, 

 so continued on for another beast for meat. Hit a 

 Nakuru hartebeeste in the shoulder, but the bullet dove 

 down, and I lost the animal in the heavy cover, though 

 we managed to trail it some distance. Shortly downed 

 another at 135 yards with three shoulder shots, all of 

 which went way through. This ended my experi- 

 ments with the 150 grain bullet. It is a killer, but its 

 action is too imcertain, as a certain proportion go right 

 through or dive freakishly. The 165 or 172 gr. much 

 better. 



Returned to camp to find Cuninghame much im- 

 proved. M 'ganga tells me some Kavirondos had come 

 away down from their country to hunt, but hearing my 

 shots ran away. They do not want to meet a white 

 man, as they have come through the sleeping sickness 

 belt just to the north, and are afraid of being shut up. 

 Many flies here — fuss flies, buzz flies, and blowflies. 



Nine miles; morning, 63; noon, 90; night, 79. 



September 29. — Cuninghame announced himself as 

 able to travel. While the safari were preparing I vis- 

 ited our bait, as two leopards had been calling there 

 for three hours. We heard them go away, snarling, 

 just before it was light enough to shoot. Saw a re- 

 markably fat hyena, however. On the way back we 

 jumped two wildebeeste, and I managed to get one 

 running, three ex five shots, through the thick bush, 

 at somewhere about 150 yards. 



