CHAPTER X 



THE GALEGTJ 



April 25th. I spent a peaceable night in bed, except 

 for a slight shower at dawn. We got off at 6.30 a.m. 

 and marched till 10 a.m. still S.W., for 7 miles, when 

 we reached the Galegu. On the road we first saw 

 six giraffes, the nearest some 200 yards, then a roan, 

 and afterwards a tiang. I tried to stalk the tiang, 

 but he was too cunning. On the banks of the maya, 

 where we encamped, were fairly fresh marks of 

 buffalo. In the afternoon I prospected in the neigh- 

 bourhood of camp and saw fully fifty reedbuck, 

 but no good heads, also ariel and oribi, and still 

 further signs of buffalo. I spent the best part of the 

 evening watching a herd of some twenty reedbuck 

 feeding, hoping that a good one might show, or the 

 buffalo come out to feed, but saw nothing that I 

 wanted, though three small waterbuck finally came 

 out. 



April 26tk. Spent the night in bed without incident. 

 In the morning R. conducted me to three may as in 

 succession a mile or two south of camp. All three 



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