GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



they intended to return the way we wished. They 

 seemed doubtful, so my husband said they could all 

 return alone, with no rations of course, and he 

 would send in a letter to the sub-commissioner 

 telling him of their behaviour and asking for a fresh 

 lot of porters to bring in our things. 



First one said he would come with us, and finally 

 all followed suit, so that little affair was settled. 

 During most of that night the boys were eating 

 meat in our new camping ground. But about the 

 middle of it, I heard a great deal of talking by the 

 fire outside our tent, and feeling angry at being dis- 

 turbed I called out " Kelele ! " (noise !) They ex- 

 citedly replied that a boy had made off, the last of 

 the three young braves in goat-skins ; so in the 

 morning the others captured five more to act as 

 porters. 



For one or two days we only saw does of ani- 

 mals, the buck of which my husband would have 

 shot. We had another hunt down the stream after 

 the elusive waterbuck, but after giving it up my 

 husband bagged an excellent specimen of Newman's 

 hartebeeste, with horns nineteen inches long. He 

 was standing on guard alone, and after a little care- 

 ful stalking my husband dropped the beast in very 

 pretty style. Leaving the orderly and gun-boy to 

 hand it over to the porters, we went on and my 

 husband shot a greater bustard, also a good shot 

 with my rifle, for our dinner — a welcome change. 



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