WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



north pole. My hands and face, however, I could 

 not cover so well that they were immune. My black 

 native guards and carriers often could not get a wink 

 of sleep during the night, although they stretched them- 



\'':sm'':JvULm''i 



r5!^?ji_i-' 



CORMORANTS DRYING THEIR PLUM.\GE 



selves by the smouldering camp-fire; they took their 

 naps in the daytime 



The Ndorobbos and Mkambas of the neighborhood 

 were in the habit of hunting the big game near the lakes 

 and swamps. I found many pits dug in the ground 

 where they took their stand and from which they shot 

 their poisoned arrows to lay low the gnu and the zebra, 

 and even the rhinoceros. But these stands had, ap- 



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