GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



told us of hippos snorting in and along the lake, 

 and rhinos farther on. 



In the evening my husband indulged in a good 

 bath, and was rather startled when enjoying it, by 

 hearing the crashing of some animal in the bushes 

 behind him. We both started up, expecting to see 

 a rhino charge us ; but the porters told us that 

 there was " nyama " (meat) above us in the under- 

 growth. Evidently what we heard was a startled 

 beast making off. My husband went out later and 

 found, and shot, a bushbuck. 



We went on next day along the foot of the hills. 

 My husband tried for a waterbuck, but only found 

 does. I saw five does which came to within thirty 

 yards of me ; the buck as usual hid himself. The 

 two orderlies we brought with us this time were 

 nearly equal to Saidi in the matter of eating. We 

 had a piece of the bushbuck kept for us, and gave 

 the rest to the orderlies and porters ; the orderlies 

 kept the two hind legs for themselves, and only gave 

 the twenty-two porters the shoulders ; and those two 

 men managed to eat a whole leg in one evening. 

 The orderlies kept very much to themselves, and the 

 Kikuyu also ; the latter built, each night, a nice 

 little hut of branches and grass ; the orderlies of 

 course slept in Baruku's tent. 



Some natives we met raised our hopes of get- 

 ting a lion farther on, but we went on and on, and 

 got very tired, as there was nothing but the hills on 



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