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you are likely to find your meat taken from the carcass 
you intended for your boys, unless you have left a man to 
guard it (while you went to camp to order porters out), 
and it is not always possible to leave a man on guard. 
It is wonderful to see the vultures come to a carcass. 
Not one can be seen with a glass, as you first sit down, 
near the fallen game. But in ten minutes, the broad black 
wings are sure to be sailing far above you. The coming 
of the wild man is, to me, almost as mysterious. I have 
walked away from my game as though I intended aban- 
doning it, and going to a distance, have hidden behind some 
shelter from which [ could command the country with my 
glass. In a wonderfully short time a black dot of a head 
would be cautiously lifted from the grass, or miles away 
I would see one, two, three, tiny black figures running 
along in single file, as they always travel, all making a 
true course for the game they somehow smelled out so 
strangely. 
The lesson I would have drawn from this is: Have 
someone in your sefari who can talk to the N’dorobo. 
Sometimes these people can speak a little Massai or Kikuyu, 
oftener they cannot, and in lion country especially, it is 
well to be on good terms with them, they are exceedingly 
timid, and quite harmless. “Though sefari men are generally 
rather nervous of meeting them, saying they fear their 
poisoned arrows. 
In Massai land, if you happen on a country where there 
is little game, but where the lions still are heard, you can 
reckon on the hearty support of the herdsmen in hunting 
them down. Where game is plentiful lions seem generally 
to leave the herds alone, but when game is scarce then the 
lion becomes bold indeed and exceedingly dangerous. 
Then he will, by some cunning device or another, stampede 
the crowded occupants of the kraal, and spite of spear 
and firebrand, take his pick, and carry it off. In such 
