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March Hth. Continued packing, tin-lining and 

 soldering the cases. 



March \5th. Practically completed my packing, 

 having got all the valuable trophies into five wooden 

 cases, hermetically sealed and lined with tin or zinc, 

 and a few odd skins of no great value sewn up as a 

 bale in an old durrie. 



March 16th. Bought stores for two months, wrote 

 letters, and made over my six cases of trophies to 

 a Government contractor for despatch by camel to 

 Wad Medani, and thence by goods train to G. H., 

 Port Sudan, who will send them to Rowland Ward. 



March 17th. Drew another 20 from Treasury, and 

 paid 8 on account of cases. Started off at 

 4.15 p.m. and marched until 7 p.m., to the well at 

 Abu Nagga, 7 miles. Villages all the way and no 

 game at all. 



March 18th. Got off at 6 a.m. and marched until 

 11 a.m. Started again at 3 p.m. and marched until 

 7 p.m. say 22 miles. No water and no game 

 except one quail and four bustard that never 

 gave a chance. Country most monotonous, grass 

 only, mostly burnt, with not even wood for fires ; 

 low hills at rare intervals. Spent the heat of the day 

 under the only two nabbuk-bushes I saw throughout 

 the march. 



