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IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA CHAP. 



idea of attacking us. In a short time four 

 old men cautiously approached, to find out our 

 intentions and reasons for traversing their country. 

 On hearing that we were quite a peaceable safari 

 merely passing through, they seemed greatly re- 



" A COUPLE OF YOUNG FOWLS . . . WERE PERCHED ON A DONKEY. 



lieved and brought a grateful present of eggs and 

 a couple of young fowls. As these were alive, 

 they were perched on a donkey, and so rode along 

 daily until Paul wanted them for the pot. 



In this neighbourhood we came upon a woolly- 

 headed and much wrinkled old native busily 

 engaged, with all the zest of a schoolboy, in setting a 

 cunningly-made bird trap, in which Mrs. B. took 



