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meshra until past midday, and voted the entertain- 

 ment a trifle slow even when a fair number of animals 

 showed themselves. In the afternoon I repaired the 

 lion-machan. In the evening Captain 0. C. turned 

 up, having shot a koodoo, waterbuck, and hartebeest, 

 and seen eight lions in broad day, of which he wounded 

 and lost one. We had a long talk, and I did not get 

 out to the lion-machan until nearly 10 p.m., where I 

 saw or heard nothing all night, though a hyaena was 

 on the prowl, having devoured the remains of the 

 goat. I got a sight of him at 60 yards at dawn. 



January 4th. Went out for another morning stalk 

 up the Sofi road, and bagged a couple of guinea-fowl, 

 being hard up for meat. Afterwards went to the left 

 bank of yesterday's meshra, but only saw two 

 gazelle, one at least a buck, but giving no chance, 

 and hearing, I think, a koodoo which got our wind. 

 Having seen the track of a lion in this meshra, and 

 also noting that it had been entirely deserted by the 

 baboons who had lined the banks the previous day, 

 I decided to sit in my perch over a goat above this 

 meshra in the evening. Crossing the river from my 

 camp, I noticed some large animal on the meshra, 

 but could not get my glasses on it before it dis- 

 appeared. Accordingly I decided to send the camel 

 with the goat along the river-bed, and to try for the 

 chance of a shot at some kind of animal along the 

 well-defined path above, which I had noticed was 



