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303 solid. First shot at partridge walking, fif- 

 teen yards. Miss. Shot seven dik-dik one after 

 the other without a miss, at distances from forty 

 to ninety yards, all shots fired in standing posi- 

 tion. One wounded dik-dik got into grass and 

 was lost, back broken apparently. Eighth shot 

 fired sitting position, kill, 100 yards. Ninth shot 

 miss, standing, thirty yards ; dik-dik moved as I 

 fired. Very straight powder to-day, dik-dik all of 

 the long-nosed kind called by Somalis " gliusi" 

 A man at 6 p.m. said lions caught two cows last 

 night in a karia three miles beyond Dhorke ; 

 too late to do anything. Somalis eat one cow, 

 the other still alive. 



1st February, Thursday. — A man came in 

 from Dhorke at 6 a.m. Said lions had been 

 round their zereba at night but had not killed 

 my donkey. Could not understand it till I got 

 there (8.45), when I found that they had been too 

 lazy to tie up the donkey, though the spot was 

 only 100 yards from their fence. They are a 

 God-forsaken, thriftless race and the greatest 

 liars on earth. Tracked the lions from 8.45 a.m. 

 to 11.15. Two large males I should say. 

 Tracks led into a dense piece of bush and grass 



