THE GALEGU 223 



April 28th. In the morning I decided to leave 

 Maya el Meruya, and the camels actually started. 

 Meanwhile I fired five shots on the maya, bagging a 

 whistling teal. Soon afterwards, I found the tracks of 

 a herd of at least thirty buffalo, which had passed 

 within sight of our camp the night before. I there- 

 fore stopped the caravan before it had gone a mile, 

 and took up the trail. The tracking was, of course, 

 of the simplest. This particular herd turned out 

 to be on the trek, and we followed it up from 7.30 

 to 10.30 in a S.E. direction up the Galegu, with- 

 out any sign of its having stopped even to graze, 

 but at last gave it up as a bad job and returned. 

 We saw two herds of waterbuck, which did not 

 now interest me, and also noticed on the maya three 

 tiang grazing, which I set to work to stalk. A 

 bushbuck detected me and gave the alarm, so I had 

 to take a longish shot, but at 120 yards, three- 

 quarters away from me, and succeeded in raking the 

 bull forwards, through the flank, when he ran 50 yards 

 and dropped a nice head of 20| inches. The 

 remainder of the day was spent in attending to the 

 tetel, and also to my guns, which now want a lot of 

 care owing to the rain. I went to the maya late in 

 the evening, but saw nothing that I wanted. 



April 29th. Some rain fell during the night, and 

 I had to go into a tent. In the morning the soil was 

 too sticky for marching, and as we had twice seen 



