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the lion, which never returned for the rest of his meal, 

 though towards midnight he roared freely in the neigh- 

 bourhood, once actually coming within 100 yards 

 of the machan, the new goat being, however, dis- 

 creetly silent. Towards morning I heard him still 

 roaring, but further down the stream, much where he 

 had been the previous evening. Returning to camp, 

 I went for a morning stalk with A. and F. M., M. 

 having succeeded in sticking my gaff into his arm the 

 previous day. I had not gone half a mile from camp 

 before, on the top of the ridge to the left of the Settit, 

 I saw within 60 yards a waterbuck, which even to 

 my inexperienced eyes seemed to have an enormous 

 spread of horn. As A. agreed that it was a good head 

 though the opinion of Arab shikaris on this point 

 does not seem to possess much value I fired for the 

 heart, and by a lucky shot broke the animal's neck 

 instead. I then sent for a camel and brought it back 

 to camp. It turned out to be a 27-inch head with a 

 33-inch spread, which is within an inch of the record 

 for spread. The rest of the day was spent attending 

 to the mask, etc. In the evening I went to the machan 

 with cold supper, with the intention of making an 

 all-night sitting. 



January 28th. Spent the night in machan fruit- 

 lessly, the lion having moved on. In the morning I 

 went for a stalk up the left bank. About a mile from 

 camp the shikaris detected a wart-hog, and said that 



