84 After Big Game in Central Africa 



abounding in lions which I have visited, I should 

 have obtained incredible results. 



The lion above mentioned and one or two buffaloes 

 were the last animals which I took to Niarugwe Camp. 



Two or three days before leaving it we meet a 

 band of 100 Mafsitis, natives of Mpeseni, probably on 

 one of their pillaging expeditions. Seeing us all well 

 armed and very indifferent, they place their shields, 

 clubs, and assagais on the ground ; then, advancing 

 towards me in a compact group, clap their hands 

 altogether three times, the manner in which natives 

 salute their chiefs. I sit down at the foot of a tree 

 with all these robbers, whose heads are dressed with 

 feathers, in a circle round me. We talk for a 

 moment or two about the rain and the fine weather, 

 and then separate, wishing reciprocally never to meet 



FEMALE RHINOCEROS. (See p. 7p.) 



