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for a stroll east in the morning. Saw gerenouk, 

 shot the buck ninety yards, hit him on shoulder 

 a little low, ran about twenty yards and died, 

 500 ex. Saw more gerenouk and tracked a koodoo 

 buck for along way without seeing him. Looked 

 up my oryx, found that they had not covered him 

 up properly (I was after the rest while they 

 skinned), and vultures eating him. A good lot 

 left and I had him properly covered. Have two 

 kills to look up to-morrow. 



21th, Saturday. — Went out in the mornino-. 

 No lions here. Had a shot at gerenouk buck at 

 about 100 yards, standing straight away from 

 me. Hit him somewhere behind with 500, 

 knocked fids of flesh out, but he went off. Jama 

 sulked and would not track, for they do not eat 

 gerenouk. Lost the gerenouk, ground bad, and 

 could find no blood, I think the one I shot left 

 the rest at once and that the tracks we followed 

 were those of the rest. Left Jama sulkiner, went 

 on without him. Found men had taken away 

 yesterday, gerenouk. Hyaena had visited or 

 Found pugs of a large male lion ; a new one, I 

 think, tracks led towards water at Derio. Put 

 up a koodoo buck as we w T ere following; did not 



