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with some porters at the camp to wait a day or two and to 

 search for me. The bulk of the caravan, some four hundred 

 men, could not of course be delayed, as the food question is a 

 serious one in a wilderness. It turned out, that the caravan, 

 instead of camping where we had halted in the morning and 

 were supposed to camp, had moved otT two hours farther on. 

 When I arrived at our camp, I got of course a wigging for 

 having left, as I was supposed to have done, a caravan on 

 the march ; but I was able to explain, that I should not have 





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left but for the misleading assurance of the headman, that we 

 had reached our destination. In fact, the caravan would have 

 camped, where I had started from, but that owing to the 

 drought there was no water to be had till the Kiboko river was 

 reached. 



Neumajins Steitibok. — On my sixth journey I shot two small 

 antelopes, one at the Molo river, the other at the Kiboko river, 

 the first in the Uganda Protectorate, the second in the British 

 East Africa Protectorate. Both were males. The females of 

 this species have no horns. I was puzzled to know to which of 

 the small species of antelopes my specimens belonged. I sub- 

 mitted them to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, the authority on antelopes 



