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kindness for their friends, prove in the end their 

 greatest enemies. 



Some men we sent to the Hamran village the other 

 day have returned with dhurra for our horses, and 

 another goat to supply our increased demand for milk. 

 They say that the people are still leaving the villages, 

 expecting ' the Turks ' to arrive daily, but that Sheik 

 Aghill remains at his post. There is a strong feeling 

 amongst them just now to migrate to Abyssinia, as they 

 would only have to pay one dollar tax annually to the 

 chief of the tribe they should join. The vultures have 

 again done us a good turn by directing Mohamed 

 to the body of the rhinoceros which Vivian severely 

 wounded the day before yesterday. The sport for the 

 week ending to-day, Saturday, has been therefore ex- 

 ceptionally good, and comprises two lions, two rhino- 

 ceros, three buffaloes, one wart-hog, two hyaenas, nine 

 antelope of various kinds, and numerous guinea-fowl. 



March 15. A blank day, excepting that I wounded 

 a rhinoceros with the single ' Henry/ and lost him from 

 not having a second charge to give him in time. 



March 16. An Arab from an unknown camp of 

 hunters called this evening to ask the ' Hakim ' to visit 

 a sick man, who was so very ill that his friends could 

 not bring him here. 



Vivian, Albert, and myself, with some guides, at once 

 started off on this mission of mercy, and from the report 



