IN THE JUNGLE 



daries elsewhere are never defined save in war- 

 time. 



Thus we smiled our good-bye to a friendly numer- 

 ous people, descended a hill, and ascended another 

 into a deserted track. After a half mile we came 

 unexpectedly on to two men carrying each a load of 

 reeds. These they abandoned and fled up the hill- 

 side through the jungle, in spite of our shouted as- 

 surances. A moment later they reappeared at some 

 distance above us, each with a spear he had snatched 

 from somewhere; they were unarmed when we first 

 caught sight of them. Examined through the 

 glasses they proved to be sullen looking men, copper 

 coloured, but broad across the cheekbones, broad in 

 the forehead, more decidedly of the negro type than 

 our late hosts. 



Aside from these two men we travelled through 

 an apparently deserted jungle. I suspect, however, 

 that we were probably well watched; for when we 

 stopped for noon we heard the gunbearers beyond 

 the screen of leaves talking to some one. On 

 learning from our boys that these were some of 

 the shenzis, we told them to bring the savages 

 in for a shauri; but in this our men failed, 

 nor could they themselves get nearer than fifty 

 yards or so to the wild people. So until even- 

 ing our impression remained that of two distant 



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