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Although I could find no lion-tracks, A. pointed out 

 to me that a single male tiang was grazing near the 

 edge of the maya. A considerable detour brought me 

 behind cover within 100 yards of the game, which I 

 believe to have been a bull that I noted two days 

 previously, when other game spoiled the chance of 

 a stalk. He never detected me, and as he turned 

 broadside-on I gave him a shot which struck amid- 

 ships. As he made off, I missed with the second 

 barrel, but after lumbering along for 30 yards 

 he stopped and lay down. I signalled to my men, 

 but presently he got up again and walked on slowly. 

 Kemembering Baker's dictum about a wounded 

 antelope that recovers its feet, I took a careful aim as 

 soon as he stopped, and knocked him down for good 

 with a bullet through the withers ; a fine bull of 

 22$ inches. As the day was still young, after bringing 

 a camel from camp, I continued to look for lion-tracks, 

 but without success, though I saw two reedbuck that 

 I might have been tempted to fire at if I had not 

 already secured meat. There were signs of cattle 

 having been grazed on these mayas, and I am told 

 that the Arabs from the Binder regularly visit them. 

 In the afternoon a hippo showed himself at the 

 west end of the lake, where it was about half a mile 

 broad. As he was feeding and moving about, 

 occasionally showing the whole of his back, I sat and 

 watched him from the various points where he 



