CHAPTER XXI 



October 5. — Went out for a last hunt in German 

 East Africa, as to-morrow we shall start on a direct 

 march for the lake. It is African etiquette to shoot 

 meat for your hosts also, so we were followed by quite 

 a retinue, viz.: ten porters for our two beasts, and 

 fifteen savages for that to be given to Walioba I and II. 

 When we reached the game cover, an hour distant, we 

 squatted all but three (to act as messengers) and went 

 on less encumbered. 



Game was plenty, but wild, which made it more in- 

 teresting. By noon I had killed a sing-sing at 292 yards; 

 a topi at no; and a zebra at 281, and another with 

 two shots, first about 275, second at 180. This finished 

 the job, and also the shooting for this part of the trip. 

 The statistics are as follows: Animals shot at 176; 

 animals killed 152. To do this required 303 cartridges 

 with which 241 hits were made. 



Very muggy sticky weather. Saw a cliff village be- 

 low a small precipice. On the top of the precipice sat 

 a baboon calmly contemplating the children below him; 

 they in turn were perched on lower cliffs looking down 

 on us. 



Men and donkeys came in from Missambi 's at i :^o, 



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