WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



near the top three buffalo charged him and his Masai. 

 In his haste to escape he fell into a crevice, whereupon 

 the buffalo returned. From the crest of the hill he saw 

 numbers of reed-buck, and in the next valley a herd 

 of buffalo feeding. As he turned to come back two 

 rhino faced him, but did not charge. At the base of 

 the hill there was so much game that he decided there 

 must be water near, a supposition which proved to 

 be correct. It was most annoying for me to have 

 missed seeing such a variety of animal life in one day. 



September 13th. — As we had heard no lions about, 

 we decided to move camp to the water Clark had 

 found. I left him to shift camp, whilst I got some 

 studies of birds near by ; then followed the safari. 

 Clark had dug a hole for water in an inconspicuous 

 place some two hundred yards from the main pool. 

 There were plenty of good signs of game of all kinds, 

 including buffalo. 



Septei7iher 14th. — Hyenas were about us all night. 

 After breakfast we decided to make a trip along the 

 hills to " Camp Simba " to see if any lions were there ; 

 but, as we found no water at the place, we decided not 

 to worry further about it. 



On our way back to camp we found fresh blood, 

 and following it up, discovered a newly-killed young 

 kongoni in a gully. 



September i^th. — Upon returning from a long 

 tram.p we saw some giraffe, but when the camera 



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