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my interest and curiosity made me forget my 

 more murderous objects. He wagged his distorted- 

 looking head, with its great gleaming tushes, 

 up and down at me for a few moments and 

 then turned, and, stiffening his tail till it stood 

 bolt upright, trotted off, seeming after the manner 

 of pig to be moving very deliberately, but really 

 travelling at a great pace. After some fifty yards 

 he stopped, turned round, and, as I remained 

 perfectly still, recommenced wagging his head, 

 and advanced again with short runs towards me. 

 It now occurred to me what a fine trophy he 

 would make, but my slight movement bringing 

 my rifle up determined him, and, turning round, 

 up went his tail, and he vanished at once. 



I next saw some gerenuk, but couldn't satisfy 

 myself there was a good enough buck, and with 

 all my shoot before me, I was not going to 

 shoot at anything not quite up to the mark. 

 A whole " sounder " of wart-hog then crossed 

 my front, followed by another splendid boar. 

 I did have a shot at him under the bushes, 

 but couldn't see him very well, and he trotted 

 away unscathed, and having thereby scared the 

 jungle all round, I returned to camp. That 

 afternoon we marched again in heavy rain, a 

 precursor of daily torrents that we endured for 

 the next three weeks, which was uncomfortable, 

 but greatly facilitated our movements in the 



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