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CHAPTER VI. 



Jan. 26. Again no sport ; but we had the small 

 satisfaction of finding a dead crocodile lying in shallow 

 water, that had been shot two or three days ago. It 

 measured ten feet, and was considered of only medium 

 size. After hauling it on the bank, a piece of the skin 

 was carefully cut out for a shield, and the rest left for 

 those, whether man, bird, or beast, who like crocodile well 

 kept. 



Whilst we were hunting, our camp was transferred to 

 new ground a few miles further along the Settite. It is 

 an extremely pretty spot, named Imberaga, and we are 

 established on a sand-bank in the bed of some dried-up 

 tributary of the Settite, and about two hundred yards 

 from it. On each side are low hills thickly wooded with 

 mimosas and the ( nabbuk,' a tree equally thorny, that 

 bears a fruit about the size of a cherry, with which it is 

 now loaded. When ripe, as at present, it has a very 

 pleasant slightly acid flavour, and is much liked by the 

 Arabs and monkeys, who pick it up generally after it has 

 fallen to the ground. Its colour is then light brown or 



