GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



around, the buck bringing up the rear, protected by 

 the preceding females. 



A Masai came by with a pass, which he showed 

 my husband ; he had a lovely ivory ornament in his 

 ear which I bought of him, made out of a hippo 

 tusk and engraved. Then I presented him with a 

 little rhino image, a mascot we had, which we had 

 out of a cracker at our last civilised dinner on 

 Christmas Eve ; I put it round his neck with a coral 

 chain, also out of a cracker. He was absolutely 

 delighted and as proud of it as anything ; his friend 

 and he did nothing but burst into laughter for 

 a few minutes. He would not believe we had 

 already shot an original of the image till the porters 

 showed him the horns, and he measured them with 

 his stick in true sportsman fashion. When he had 

 finished he came to me, like the most polished 

 gentleman, and said, " Kua heri ! " (Good-bye 1 ) He 

 told us that on the other side of the lake there were 

 rhinos and lions and other beasts, so, as we felt it 

 was no good staying where we were, we decided 

 to go round. We tried to be very clever, and cut 

 across the swamp along hippos' tracks, but, find- 

 ing the water too deep, we had to keep skirting 

 round long arms stretching from the main body of 

 water in the centre of the swamp, a continuation 

 of the lake, making our march much longer. It 

 took us from half-past ten a.m. till two p.m. to cross, 

 in the hottest sun ; my heart felt sad as I dragged 



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