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her servants ; but Manenko was not to be circumvented 

 in this way ; she came forward with her people, and said 

 her uncle would be angry if she did not carry forward 

 the tusks and goods of Sekeletu, seized the luggage, and 

 declared that she would carry it in spite of me. My men 

 succumbed sooner to this petticoat government than I felt 

 inclined to do, and left me no power ; and. being unwilling 

 to encounter her tongue, I was moving off to the canoes, 

 when she gave me a kind explanation, and, with her hand 

 on my shoulder, put on a motherly look, saying, " Now, 

 my little man, just do as the rest have done." My 

 feelings of annoyance of course vanished, and I went out 

 to try and get some meat. 



The only game to be found in these parts are, the zebra, 

 the kualata or tahetsi {Aigoceros equina), kama (Bubahis 

 caama), buffaloes, and the small antelope hakitenwe 

 (Philantomba). 



The animals can be seen here only by following on 

 their trail for many miles. Urged on by hunger, we 

 followed that of some zebras during the greater part of the 

 day : when within fifty yards of them, in a dense thicket, 

 I made sure of one, but, to my infinite disguest, the gun 

 missed fire, and off they bounded. The climate is so 

 very damp, from daily heavy rains, that everything 

 becomes loaded with moisture, and the powder in the gun- 

 nipples cannot be kept dry. It is curious to mark the 

 intelligence of the game ; in districts where they are 

 much annoyed by fire-arms, they keep out on the most 

 open spots of country they can find, in order to have 

 a widely-extended range of vision, and a man armed 

 is carefully shunned. From the frequency with which 

 I have been allowed to approach nearer without than 

 with a gun, I believe they know the difference between 

 safety and danger in the two cases. But here, where 

 they are killed by the arrows of the. Balonda, they select 

 for safety the densest forest, where the arrow cannot 

 be easily shot. The variation in the selection of standing 

 spots during the day may, however, be owing partly to 

 the greater heat of the sun, for here it is particularly 

 sharp and penetrating. However accounted for, the 

 wild animals here do select the forest by day, while those 

 farther south generally shun these covers, and, on several 

 occasions, I have observed there was no sunshine to cause 

 them to seek for shade. 



