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most of the day, but we did manage to get out long 

 enough to shoot a few birds for the pot. 



There are great quantities of guinea fowl in this 

 district and they not only offer fine sport, but are 

 very good food. I should hate to state how many 

 millions of guinea fowl there are in Africa, for on my 

 previous expedition into Southwest Africa and Angola 

 I found them in untold thousands, while here they 

 were in clouds. Later I was to find that all these were 

 just a few that had left the main flock living in the 

 French Congo. 



It got dark as we went back to camp, so we took 

 a short cut through some small trees. Here we saw 

 large red eyes hopping and bobbing all over the place. 

 It was both tlirilling and mystifying to watch these 

 twin balls of red fire as they darted hither and thither 

 through the air. Mike cleared the mystery when he 

 told me they were lemurs, a small night animal living 

 in trees. As they make excellent pets we tried our 

 luck at catching one. After climbing many trees, 

 cutting off branches, and running Kke mad through 

 the thorn tliickets for a couple of hours we were suc- 

 cessful in capturing one little lemur which we took 

 home and put in a box. About the time this was 

 taking place Austin and a boy had captured seven baby 

 bat-eared foxes, so the next morning we awoke to find 

 that we had quite a zoo. Although the lemur is a 

 very small animal it has a very large hop and 

 the way it can cover distance is most remarkable, not 

 only on the ground but by jumping from one tree to 

 another. Their eyes are Van Dyke brown in color 

 and the largest I have ever seen in proportion to the 

 size of the animal. 



