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the poor beast, and the unhappy calf kept up a 

 great bellowing all the time. Finally they dis- 

 patched it only a short distance away from our 

 camp. All this kept us awake, for the lions were 

 so occupied with their sport that there was the 

 chance that they might come slap upon us. 



On the way to Handeni we passed a camp in 

 the bush made by Captain LaFontaine, one of 

 our Intelligence men, who some time previously 

 had made a venturesome trip to a German 

 tramway running to Handeni. The third day 

 out, by sheer bad luck, we nearly walked right 

 into a small party of German askaris in some thick 

 country, and both sides cleared into the bush 

 and lost sight of each other. After this we 

 decided that Lewis, with one of our Kwafi and the 

 mules, should be sent back to a camp to await 

 us at a spot arranged between our guides, whilst 

 Brown and I should go on a couple of days farther 

 to Handeni. After we had picked up Lewis on 

 the return journey, we struck the column that 

 had first started moving south in time to see the 

 little fight at Makalamo bridge, where a few Ger- 

 man companies again held us up in a very awkward 

 position adjoining the Pangani. This was really 

 their last effort on the Tanga railway, which then 

 fell into our hands. 



From Makalamo, the same three of us, with 

 four askaris and the two Kwafi guides of our 

 previous trip, started out on the right, our 

 objective this time being to find out what was 



