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from Meru. We also arranged to have a relief 

 expedition of thirty porters, whom we employed 

 temporarily for the purpose, despatched to meet 

 us with bags of beans on our return journey 

 up the river. By these arrangements we accom- 

 plished our journey without any appreciable 

 shortage of food for the porters. 



Mr. Archer told me two very interesting shikar 

 stories, which I hope he will not object to my 

 relating. 



He had with him a wizened Wanderobo, who 

 had served with Neumann, the great elephant- 

 hunter. On one occasion, when Mr. Archer 

 was hunting with an English friend, the Wanderobo 

 saw a lion, and, as the lion was moving away, 

 Mr. Archer put a bullet into him. Following 

 him up, they found him lying in some bushes 

 at the foot of a slope. He was apparently dead, 

 and a Sudanese orderly went up to the carcase 

 to drag it out of the bushes. Before doing so, 

 he asked Mr. Archer if he would not take a photo- 

 graph of the animal. Mr. Archer accordingly 

 exchanged his rifle for a camera, and his friend 

 also parted with his rifle. While Mr. Archer 

 was adjusting the camera, the lion suddenly 

 raised himself with a growl and charged. He 

 seized his rifle and fired two shots, but failed 

 to stop the lion, and then turned to run, with 

 the lion in pursuit. The Wanderobo, as the 

 lion bounded past him, sprang forward and 

 drove his assegai clean through him, killing 

 him on the spot. Mr. Archer showed me a 

 photograph of the Wanderobo, standing erect 

 with the assegai in his hand with which he had 



