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nearest approached the shore, but he was far too 

 cunning to come within shot, and after sitting until 

 it was quite dark I returned to camp. 



May 2nd. Heavy rain during the night again made 

 marching impossible. A leopard called two or three 

 times a mile away, an hour after sunrise, but ceased 

 as soon as I approached his neighbourhood. On the 

 way I disturbed large numbers of tiang, fully 100, 

 but, as usual, they kept out of shot. After pro- 

 ceeding south for about 1| miles, I was somewhat 

 surprised to reach the Galegu. Following its course 

 for a couple of miles east, I saw no sign of buffalo 

 or elephant, and then struck inland, across the maya, 

 seeing large numbers of reedbuck, but no good 

 heads. Then a larger tiang with two smaller ones 

 ran across my front, and finally bolted past me 

 within 100 yards. I said that they were a female and 

 two young ones, but A. insisted that the larger one was 

 a good head. Seven months' experience ought to have 

 taught me the value of the word of an Arab shikari 

 as to the size of the head, but I was unfortunately 

 bluffed into taking the somewhat tempting shot, and 

 of three rounds that I fired, two told loudly on the 

 largest of the three tiang, but did not stop it. We 

 followed up the trail, which was obvious enough, with 

 lots of blood, and after a mile saw the tiang moving 

 very slowly 150 yards ahead. I naturally assumed 

 that the lagging tiang was the wounded one, and 



