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We then went a considerable distance up-stream, but 

 found no new tracks far from camp. On the way 

 home we saw a hippo in midstream. Other game seen 

 that day were a smallish waterbuck, a duiker, and 

 half a dozen oribi. In the afternoon we returned 

 with the idea of taking up the trail of the big bull, 

 but we crossed the track of another bull, and 

 although it was not too fresh decided to take it up 

 instead. This bull made a large circuit over the 

 cotton-soil, and ended by returning to the ravines, 

 by which time the marks were so stale as to be practi- 

 cally indistinguishable from old tracks. We gave it 

 up, and started for camp. Eather less than a mile 

 from camp I heard a scuffle the other side of a mound 

 and ran to the top, when I saw the two small bulls of 

 the morning making off the other side. One showed 

 two twists to his horns, and, reflecting on the date, I 

 decided to take the shot. This bull was so foolish as 

 to halt in open ground at 60 yards, and next moment 

 got a -350 bullet through the ribs, when he ran some 

 60 yards and dropped. The head was only 37| inches, 

 but pretty and symmetrical, and on the whole I was 

 fairly pleased. We cut the head off and brought it to 

 camp at once, and donkeys fetched in the meat 

 after dark. 



June 14th. Spent a long morning cleaning the 

 koodoo-head, and also my rifles, which were in a sad 

 state through damp. Then marched 20 miles into 



