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bull. Both waited for us after a mile, until we were 

 again within 50 yards. Unluckily, none of us saw 

 them hiding, and all I caught sight of was a long 

 pair of horns disappearing. On the way home we 

 saw a duiker, and heard numerous hippos calling in 

 the evening and most of the night. 



June llth. Paid a second visit to Gebel Maba, 

 lying in wait where we had seen the big bull. Four 

 young does were taking the sun on the next hill-top, 

 a quarter of a mile off, and passed us first within 150, 

 and finally within 50 yards. Unfortunately we saw 

 no other koodoo all the morning, but met a roan 

 antelope at the foot of the hill. On the way home I 

 missed an oribi right and left at 60 yards, but had only 

 the haunches at which to shoot, as he was hiding be- 

 hind a tree. In the afternoon I went over the ravines. 

 After an hour we saw a doe koodoo, and then found 

 tracks of a herd which appeared to include a bull, 

 but there they mixed with other tracks, and when 

 we came up to the herd no bull was visible, though we 

 saw two or three does at about 250 yards. When we 

 tried a nearer approach, some guinea-fowl sent the 

 herd off. On the way home we walked into presum- 

 ably the same herd in fairly open ground at 200 yards, 

 and saw distinctly that it consisted of six or seven 

 does only. 



June 12th. Paid a third visit to Gebel Maba. H. 



