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tlie other smaller, with forked branches, were then 

 selected, felled, and lashed together. Upon this 

 improvised sledge Ave bound our dead roan ante- 

 lope, and to it Ave attached the six mules. These 

 drao-o-ed alono- their burden, not without difficulty, 

 througli the bushy and Ijroken ground, and reached 

 camp about mid-day. I was quite done up, having 

 walked some miles, the sun beino; verv strono-. 

 Lee, who had been hunting about all the morning 

 for our other Avounded antelopes and quagga, re- 

 turned in the afternoon with the head and horns 

 of one roan antelope, the eutire body and bones of 

 AAdiich had been devoured in the nio-ht b^^ our 



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friends the lions. I haA'e reason to think that 

 another shooting party in our immediate vicinity 

 picked up tAvo or three head of Avliat Ave had 

 AVOunded, as Ave heard several shots in the course 

 of the morning close to our camp. 



It had been arranged Avith ^lajor Giles that I 

 Avas to start to rejoin him on the 27th, but the 

 attractions of this spot Avere so great and the game 

 apparently so numerous that Captain Williams 

 and I determined to stay another day. Off Ave 

 started at daybreak on Monday, the 27th — 

 Captain Williams, I, Lee, and '" the Baboon." I 

 decided that Ave should keep all together, as lions 

 Avere evidently about, Captain Williams and " the 

 Baboon " having seen much spoor on Saturday, 

 and I did not choose to run the risk of Captain 

 Williams ha\dng such an experience as I had had 

 Avith no one to help him but *•' the Baboon," Avho 

 not only speaks no English, but Avould probably 



