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failed to find. They were still looking for it close 
at hand, however, so Sabaki hailed them and they 
at once set to work to skin and cut up the animal, 
and then carried it to the camp. 
Meanwhile, of course, we knew nothing of all 
this, and continued our hunt for game. | Shortly 
after noon we had a light lunch, and while 
we were eating it our guides, Uliagurma and 
Landaalu, discovered a bees’ nest in a fallen tree 
and proceeded to try to extract the honey, of which 
the Masai are very fond. This interference was 
naturally strongly resented by the bees, and soon 
the semi-naked youths ran flying past us with the 
angry swarm in full pursuit. I laughed heartily at 
Landaalu, and chaffed him unmercifully for allowing 
himself, a Masai, to be put to flight by a few bees. 
This the jolly fellow took very good-humouredly, 
saying that if he only had a jacket like mine he would 
soon go and get the honey. I gave him my jacket 
at once, and a most comical figure he cut in it, as it 
was very short and he had practically nothing else 
on. When the nest was properly examined, however, 
it was found that the bees had eaten all the 
honey; so after taking some photographs of our 
guides at work among the bees we all pro- 
ceeded homewards, reaching camp about dusk, 
with nothing to show for our long day’s hunt. 
We were met by Sabaki, who was in a great 
