GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



friend Masharia, not wishing to be outdone, hunted 

 about and found a small and very ancient cut on 

 his leg and came to me also for " dawa " (medicine) ; 

 to please him I bound it up. He then brought an 

 empty cartridge case for me to fill with the " dawa," 

 which I did with boracic acid powder and explained 

 its use ; he was hugely delighted. We spent a 

 couple of delightful days in this place, wandering 

 about ; although it was tiring, as the grass was long 

 and we were continually having to step over fallen 

 tree-trunks. Mark would never let us move out 

 of his sight, and thoroughly enjoyed camping. 



It was a curious thing, but after we had tracked 

 our first rhino at night I used to be fearfully 

 nervous, insisting on the tent being well fastened 

 down in case a lion took a fancy to poke his head 

 in, or more likely a hyaena (it would be all the same 

 to me in the dark). I dreamed of rhinos charging 

 us, and I woke up shaking with fear, thinking that 

 in the morning I should never dare go after a rhino 

 again. But as soon as daylight came, my fears dis- 

 appeared and no one was more keen than I, and 

 later, when we were lucky enough to get two rhinos, 

 no one could have enjoyed it more. 



Our last evening we climbed the escarpment 

 again, to be met by the delicious fresh breeze we 

 had noticed before on the top. We saw plenty of 

 zebra. Tommies and kongoni ; my husband shot a 

 zebra, they have such lovely skins, although very 



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