Diary. GO 



5 o'clock. Met a gafila ; they said there is plenty 

 of water at Luckhu. Saw a buck of Clarke's 

 gazelle in the afternoon, but could not get a shot. 

 Killed a dik-dik for dinner, forty yards. 



12th March, Monday. — Reached Garhati at 7 

 a.m. Tank nearly full of water, and wells full of 

 rain water and insects. Lot of sheldrake on the 

 tank. Shot two sheldrake, one guinea-fowl, eight 

 dik-dik, and lost three wounded dik-dik. Fired 

 exactly twenty rounds solid bullet 303. Shooting 

 rather good, as dik-dik were wild. Green grass 

 all over the place. Camels, horse, donkeys and 

 goats gorging to repletion. Camels came in the 

 evening romping into the zereba and looking like 

 animated mussacks. Moved on to Luckhu at 

 noon. Plenty of rain water in the wells, and two 

 tanks there. No karias here. 



13th March, Tuesday. — Started at 5 a.m., 

 marched till 10, and again from 2 to 5 p.m. Saw 

 a herd of about fifteen oryx. Could not get cover 

 nearer than 200 yards. Used 303, fired five 

 shots, first shot hit, second hit, both big bucks, 

 third, fourth, and fifth shots at about 300 yards, 

 fifth hit. Found two blood tracks, one with very 

 little and one with plenty of blood. Followed for 



