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never got another chance. I next saw all five water- 

 buck, and could have shot the buck, but decided 

 that he was too small. 



February 9th. Following the advice of my shikaris, 

 I spent the whole day on the big meshra, with the 

 disappointing result of only seeing one bushbuck far 

 out of shot. These men seem to know very little of 

 their own river. Luckily, I had taken a hand-line 

 and plenty of literature, and caught a barbel of 10 Ib. 

 and a carp of 3 Ib., and afterwards brought my 

 news of the outer world up to January 10th. In the 

 evening I went further up the left bank, seeing an 

 oribi, sex unknown, and the hind-quarters of some 

 larger antelope, and afterwards came down the right 

 bank, seeing a doe waterbuck, and a doe bushbuck 

 and young. 



February IQth. In the early morning I bagged 

 a pigeon, in some cliffs where I had noticed them 

 the previous evening, and also a dove by accident. 

 I then broke camp and marched a couple of miles 

 up-stream to Sueta, a meshra where the Haden- 

 dowas had been complaining of damage by lions. 

 On the way I sat over the big meshra until 11 a.m., 

 seeing nothing but gazelle, ariel, and wart-hog. 

 Just as the caravan appeared in sight, a very large 

 herd of roan antelope likewise appeared at the 

 extreme end of the meshra. A. said fifty, but I put 



