Diary. 83 



22nd March, Thursday. — Fever last night, 

 only got to sleep about 12.30, and they started 

 loading up at 2.45 instead of 3.15, as I had 

 ordered. Marched about one and a-half hours 

 along- the road and two and a-half west to near 

 some karias (Gerodi). Fever came on again 

 about 8 a.m., and I felt much knocked up. 

 Jama saw tracks of lioness and two cubs near 

 the camp. I started at 10 ; beautiful open jungle 

 with a few scattered bushes, but the tracking 

 was hard, owing to the surface being hardened by 

 recent rain. Lost tracks at 12 and I gave up. 

 Had I been fit I would have sent for more men 

 and kept on, and would probably have got the 

 lioness. (Ibraham Yei, Habr Unis, will show 

 shikar in this direction). 



23rd March, Friday. — Marched from 4.30 to 

 10.30 and from 3 to 6 o'clock. Got well into 

 Thoio plain. Large herds of aoul there, abso- 

 lutely unapproachable, and my men could not 

 drive them. It is no use telling them that to go 

 a long round and advance straight on to the 

 antelope is the wrong way ; they will not do the 

 proper trick of edging round close to the antelope 

 and making them circle gradually your way. 



