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where nothing stirred at all. Then marched to Wad 

 Heleu, and sat till midday over the meshra where I 

 had shot the lioness, M. reporting it to be frequented 

 by a big koodoo. Nothing, however, showed but 

 gazelle and wart-hog. In the afternoon I fitted my 

 one leopard and three lion skins into two of my store- 

 boxes, after treating them freely with turpentine and 

 arsenical soap. Found to my disgust bacon-beetles 

 in some of my other skins, including a roan mask. 

 Set up a machan in the usual place in the evening, 

 as three lions were reported in the neighbourhood. 

 In fact, I had seen tracks the previous day. Dined 

 in camp, and went to the machan afterwards. 



March 6th. Spent a fruitless night in the machan. 

 Suspect that the hyaena which frequents this spot 

 came and looked at the goat, which was blissfully 

 unconscious. If so, this same goat has been looked 

 at by a lion, a leopard, and a hyaena. Went to the 

 meshra in the early morning, and stayed there until 

 past 11. Nothing showed but gazelle and ariel, 

 though a herd of koodoo had obviously passed the 

 stand in my absence. I spent the afternoon putting 

 the little turpentine I had left, on some of the antelope 

 masks, and in the evening returned to the meshra. 

 Nothing passed my stand but a male dikdik, which 

 I ought to have fired at, but forgot that I should see 

 none on the Rahad and Binder. A gazelle drank at 

 sunset, but big fires in front and herds of cattle 



