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Panjani, Kingani, and Lufiji rivers are full of them, 

 as well as all the other minor feeders to the sea 

 along that coast. If these animals happen to be 

 killed in places so far distant from the sea that the 

 tidal waters have not power to draw them out to 

 the ocean depths, their bodies will be found, when 

 inflated with gas, after decomposition, floating on the 

 surface of the water a day or two afterwards, and 

 can easily be secured by the sportsman, if he be 

 vigilant enough to take them before the hungry 

 watchful savages come and secure them, to damp 

 then- rapacious appetites. Mussulmans will even 

 eat these amphibious creatures without cutting their 

 throats, looking on them as cold-blooded animals, 

 created in the same manner as fish. 



The following day, 10th August, we made a halt 

 to try our fortune again in purchasing cows, but 

 failed as usual; so the following morning we de- 

 camped at dawn, and marched thirteen miles to our 

 original station in southern Kera. Here I purchased 

 four goats for one dhoti Amerikan, the best bargain 

 I ever made. Thunder had rumbled, and clouds 

 overcast the skies for two days ; and this day a 

 delicious cooling shower fell. The people said it 

 was the little rains chota barsat, as we call it in 

 India expected yearly at this time, as the precursor 

 of the later great falls. As Seedi Bombay was very 

 inquisitive to-day about the origin of Seedis, his 

 caste, and as lie wished to know by what law of 



