With Flashlight and Rifle 



But for all disadvantages there was ample compensation in 

 the wonderful opportunities one had for observation during 

 the daytime. In places where the receding water had 

 allowed fresh grass to spring up, were deep holes dug out 

 by the natives to serve as hiding-places in which they 

 crouched, and from which they took their toll with poisoned 

 arrows from the herds of gnus and zebras coming down 



A PELICAN 



to drink. In the numerous holes they had made they 

 could conceal themselves according to their need and the 

 direction of the wind, and thus they were able, working 

 together in small groups, to kill even rhinoceroses by the 

 light of the moon. The whitened skulls of these animals 

 shining in the sunshine near these holes as we passed 

 them during the day told their own story. 



Now, however, no Ndorobo, no Mkamba was to be 



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