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was laid up with a cut foot, and a donkey-man re- 

 placed him. We first ascended to the lair of the old 

 bull, but nothing showed, so at 9 a.m. we climbed the 

 main hill itself, when we saw first of all a doe koodoo 

 and young at a quarter of a mile, and afterwards a 

 herd of six or seven does, which gave a good chance of 

 a shot at 120 yards before making off. We climbed 

 right to the top of the ridge, and at the extreme end 

 S. showed me a bull roan lying on an ant-heap. Before 

 it finally made ofE this foolish animal allowed me to 

 walk up within 60 yards, and I consumed my morning 

 chocolate sitting within 80 yards, and might have 

 shot it ten times over had I not already secured my 

 allowance of roan. Not 100 yards further up jumped 

 a koodoo bull and made off, all that I saw being a 

 glimpse of horn. To make matters worse, S. said that 

 it was the big bull. He went straight down the hill 

 and round the base, and we took up the trail more 

 because it led towards camp than with any hope of 

 seeing him again. After we had gone nearly a mile 

 a male oribi walked slowly across my path at 20 yards, 

 and being short of meat I took the shot and secured 

 it 4| inches. The donkey-man carried it to camp, 

 and S. and I followed the bull, which took us three- 

 quarters of the way round Gebel Maba, and then 

 made a bee-line for the main forest below, when we 

 gave it up and got back to camp at 1 p.m. On the 

 Gebel we again saw our herd of six or seven does, and 



