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and, even after we left the neighbourhood, lions 

 raided the farm again and killed a pig. The 

 lion, like the tiger, appears to have a weakness 

 for pork. 



We found no buffaloes, but I shot a good bush- 

 buck in the hills, and also shot oribi in the 

 country between the farm and Fort Hall. 



At the farm we had a little trouble with the 

 porters. We had Wakamba, Baganda, Kavirondo, 

 and a few Kikuyu men, and some lawless spirits 

 among them interfered with the Kikuyu labourers 

 on the farm, and had to be punished by a flogging. 

 A case of theft occurred also, which necessitated 

 an elaborate investigation. Abdu accused two 

 of the porters of stealing some of the Somalis' 

 rice ; and I asked Mr. Swift, who knew the 

 Swahili language, to inquire into the case. The 

 porters put up a good defence, and said that they 

 had bought the rice, which they were accused 

 of stealing, at Fort Hall. They had been at 

 Fort Hall on the day before, and the defence 

 was plausible. Abdu first put forward the weak 

 argument that the negroes would not have 

 purchased Somalis' rice, as it was of superior 

 quality ; and the case was going against him. 

 He then said that the negroes, when committing 

 the theft, had left a trail of rice behind them 

 from the Somalis' camp to their own tents ; 

 and an inspection of the ground, which was made 

 in the presence of the porters, showed that this 

 was the case. The spokesman of the two accused 

 saw that the game was up ; and, when a sen- 

 tence of flogging was announced, lay down quite 

 resignedly to receive it. I remarked to Mr. 



