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of camp next morning. 0. turned up to breakfast. 

 Fitted up electric battery, and spent night in an old 

 wooden wigwam built by a former sportsman one and 

 a half miles below camp on the Atbara. Some animal 

 leopard or lion started growling as soon as it got 

 dark, and after a quarter of an hour tried to find out 

 from the back what was inside the wigwam. As it 

 crept round, the sheep detected it, and gave a great 

 bound. Supposing the animal to be on the sheep I 

 turned on the light, but saw nothing except the 

 sheep straining at the cord. The animal then sniffed 

 behind the wigwam and went off, and I spent the 

 rest of the night in peace ! 



November 23rd. Next morning I strengthened the 

 wigwam considerably, and afterwards bagged a 

 10|-inch Heuglin. I then roofed over the hole which 

 I had left open half a mile below camp. In the 

 afternoon 0. and I went fishing, when I pulled out 

 a 15-lb. barbel, 0. getting a smaller one and a kinkin. 



November 24^. Spent a most eventful night in the 

 hole half a mile below the camp. Started well by 

 falling sound asleep under the mosquito-net. Woke 

 up at 3 a.m. or so, and heard a noise of chewing. 

 Could see nothing, but as there was nothing for the 

 sheep to eat, obviously something was eating the 

 sheep. I turned on the light, and could make out an 

 indistinct mass and an occasional glimmer of eyes. 



