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and a half miles off say lion visits occasionally. 

 Shot four dik-dik, wounded and lost one ten 

 yards. Fired four shots at one dih-dih about 

 fifty yards off; he stood absolutely still all the 

 time, till the fourth shot cut him over, I stand- 

 ino- and firms: in full view of him ! ! ! 



12th, Monday. — Elhar, spent all the morning 

 after hoodoo; saw only does, and few of them. 

 There was a lot of low thorn -bush about shoulder 

 high, which was hard and painful to get through, 

 and the thorns scraping against one's clothes 

 alarmed the hoodoo before you saw them. The 

 does I saw were in an open bit ; saw fresh tracks 

 of oryx. Left Elhar at 1.45, marched till 5 p.m., 

 general direction north-west, shot two dih-dih, two 

 cartridges. Country more open, saw gerenouh, 

 and tracks of oryx. 



13th, Tuesday. — Marched eight hours north- 

 west through low hills, arrived in plain of Lehelu, 

 but did not reach water ; plain surrounded by 

 hills and cultivated. Abyssinian camp about 

 one and a half miles off the spot I am camping 

 in. Shot one dih-dih, missed one guinea-fowl 

 with 303. Had a long shot at gerenouh with 500, 

 missed, went over, I guess, as I could only see 



