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previous evening. In the early morning I shot a 

 black partridge ; and in the evening I made a circuit 

 round the camp, but saw nothing save three or four 

 oribi and half a dozen reedbuck. One of the latter 

 seemed to have a fair head, but made off incontinently. 

 All the game I have yet seen on the Binder have been 

 very shy, and the country has undoubtedly been 

 overshot. 



May 5th. Moved camp again, and marched down- 

 stream about 8 miles, from 7.30 to 10.30 a.m. All the 

 game that I saw consisted of a sounder of wart-hog, 

 and half a dozen reedbuck and oribi. I followed the 

 river-bed, and, saving one lion, did not even see fresh 

 tracks of big game. Having questioned various natives 

 as to buffalo and elephant, I learnt that elephant are 

 said to exist lower down, although it seems prob- 

 lematical whether buffalo occur at all on the Binder, 

 below its junction with the Galegu. It is amazing 

 that a practically uninhabited river-bed, at the 

 driest season of the year, should attract so little game. 

 In the early morning I shot a guinea-fowl ; and in the 

 afternoon made a circuit round the camp. Half a 

 mile away I found a score of Arab hunters with four 

 young giraffes they had lately captured. The giraffes 

 were quite tame, but one was badly rope-galled, 

 and in the evening I had the head-men of the ex- 

 pedition round to my camp and gave them f Ib. of 

 vaseline for the gall, and an old piece of felt for cold- 



