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fresh sign of buffalo on the way home the day before, 

 we went over much of the same ground again, but 

 there was no fresh sign of buffalo at all, though I saw 

 fully fifty waterbuck, which caused me to marvel at 

 the restriction to two heads in the Kassala and Sennar 

 combined provinces. Getting back at 10 a.m. I 

 found the ground dry, so decided to march ; and we 

 covered 8 miles to a large lake called Has Amir, in 

 the neighbourhood of which were three big herds of 

 tiang, numbering considerably above 100 in all, 

 besides the usual sprinkling of reedbuck, and a few 

 waterbuck. On the road one of the camels un- 

 luckily put its foot into a bees' nest, and was badly 

 stung. As my Sudanese servants had now run out of 

 dourra, I gave them a sack of 235 Ib. In the 

 evening I went to the west end of the lake, where a 

 herd of some forty tiang were feeding. As the ground 

 was quite open, I sent M. round to try to drive them, 

 but they bolted in the wrong direction. There was a 

 single hippo in the middle of the lake, but he would 

 not approach the edge. The camping-ground was 

 obviously much used, and strewn with small heads of 

 reedbuck, ariel, etc., and here I may add that yester- 

 day I found a skeleton of a second bull buffalo on the 

 Galegu, with a bullet-hole through the ribs on both 

 sides, and 30-inch horns, which the sportsman 

 concerned had not thought fit to carry off. 



April 30th. In the morning I made a complete 



