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orderly bearing an official letter from the station staff 

 officer, saying I must return at once, to take command 

 of a detachment starting next morning for Karennee, 

 some troubles having been reported from that quarter. 

 My boy had been told the news, so had sent on 

 one pony to Tseben and the other for me to ride. 

 Of course I abused my luck, and anathematised the 

 Karens and the civil authorities generally, who more 

 frequently than not made mountains out of mole- 

 hills, and find mares' nests where none exist ; still, 

 there was no help for it, and go I must, so telling 

 Shoay-Boh to try and retrieve the leopards and to 

 send the gaur's head to Tongho, I went across country 

 under the guidance of a Burman, reaching Tseben, at 

 2 P.M. and Tongho that evening. On my return, after 

 six weeks' wandering in Karennee (the whole report of 

 an outbreak was false), Shoay-Boh told me he had come 

 across part of the skeleton of a leopard, not very far 

 from where I had seen the two, but whether it was 

 the remains of one of those I fired at or not, I 

 could not say. My luck on that trip was certainly 

 nnexceptionally great. 



AFRICAN WILD CATTLE SHOOTING. 



On arriving at Bonny en route to the Congo, an 

 emergent letter from an officer recruiting Haussas 

 up the Niger was handed to me. It was to the effect 

 that he had not sufficient officers to assist him ; and 

 that unless some more joined him, the whole thing 

 would be a failure, and all the money expended by 

 the Association lost. Now I was far senior to the 

 individual in question, but putting my dignity in my 



