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bag, and we returned to breakfast, the remainder of 

 the day being spent over the skinning of these two 

 animals. 



January 21st. In the early morning the island was 

 again beaten out, and although nothing came out 

 quite close to my butt, I saw a doe waterbuck with 

 a fawn and three-quarter-grown youngster emerge 

 lower down, and after we had left observed a couple of 

 bushbuck come over much the same line. The truth 

 is that all the grass on the left bank had been burned 

 whilst it is still thick on the island, and so long as this 

 continues the island will be a certain draw for some 

 animal or other. We then proceeded up-stream to 

 look for yesterday's buffalo, but the place seemed 

 to be full of Arabs, and we saw nothing but a wart-hog 

 feeding where I had missed the bushbuck. In fact, the 

 buffalo appeared to affect the cotton-fields of Hagar 

 ul Zuruk, and might be more easily reached from 

 our next camp. I may add that we jumped a couple of 

 small antelope, which the shikaris called " mora." 

 This name, I believe, applies to both duiker and 

 oribi, but I only caught a mere glimpse of them. In 

 the afternoon I sewed a new sole on to a boot, and in 

 the evening tied up a goat on the island, without 

 result. 



January 22nd. Beat out island in morning, but 

 only saw the doe waterbuck and fawn, which 



