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circuit of Ras Amir, 5 miles or so at this season. I 

 saw little game but a herd of waterbuck, with some 

 fair heads, and a few oribi and ariel. The tiang were 

 feeding at the west end as yesterday, but were far 

 too cute to be stalked. As I sat waiting for them to 

 return to the lake, three Arab hunters put in an 

 appearance, armed with a gun, which I had already 

 heard that morning. When they saw my tent, two 

 of them went to reconnoitre. We approached the 

 third, who made off, but finally waited for us 

 and accompanied us to camp. There were the 

 remains of a large elephant to the north of the lake, 

 presumably the bag of some European sportsman 

 this season, as a small zareba still stood close by. 

 In the afternoon I attempted to stalk a large number 

 of tiang, upon a maya south of camp. However, the 

 presence of large numbers of ariel, reedbuck, and 

 waterbuck, together with the open nature of the 

 ground, made the task an impossible one, though I 

 might have taken shots at 200 yards, but was not 

 sure of the size or sex of the game. So ended a month 

 in which I was not successful in bringing to bag any 

 animal of note. 



May 1st. Heavy rain fell in the night, and put 

 marching out of the question, but as the morning 

 broke fine, I went out with the intention of trying 

 to track up a lion that had been roaring towards 

 dawn in the direction of the maya, south'^of camp. 

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