With Flashlight and Rifle <* 



A frugal supper, which tastes very good after all 

 the exertions of the: day, is prepared from the; flesh of 

 the eland roasted on the: spit ; ami refreshing sleep 

 soon embraces myself and the: men who are ncjt keeping 

 watch. Up here, in the pure air of the mountain-forest 

 very different from that of my camp on the fever-breeding 

 velt one sleeps doubly well. But not less than three 

 times in the night we are all awakened suddenly by the 

 snorting of rhinoceroses in our proximity. We spring- 

 up, and a long time elapses before the angry pachyderms 

 disappear, still uttering snorts that echo hideously through 

 the forest. 



The next morning sees me returning to the camp by 

 a different path. This time we climb down to the valley 

 by the southern declivities of the mountain-chain. Rock- 

 badgers and klipspringers are visible, also two huge herds, 

 of baboons ; and now that 1 have: no longer any desire 

 te> shoejt antelope, the birds afford me many a fine specimen 

 tor my collection. Gorgeously coloured turacos, in par- 

 ticular, scuffling in the: foliage, are soon added to my spoils. 



When, half-way to a rocky plateau, I halt and investi- 

 gate the: desert below me with a Goerz-Trialder glass, 

 I perceive numerous little ele>ts, which prove to be large: 

 herds of wild animals. Whe:n we: come: some: hundred 

 yards nearer to the foot of the: mountain, great crowds of 

 gnus, zebras, and impalla antelopes come: out tor the 

 midday drink, and allow me, now that 1 am not hunting 

 them, to pass within a few liuiulre-el paces. 



More than once: 1 have maele incursions into the 

 higher regions of the; Donje-Erok la Matumbato, but 



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