WE RUN SHORT OF FOOD 



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quite an adept at fire-making, it was often a very long business, 

 most trying to our patience, and, generally speaking, a shelter 

 had to be erected to begin with. 



We had nearly exhausted the food we had brought with us, 

 and as we were anxious to save our cattle, we had to fill the 



men's pots with game. So in the afternoon we went off hunting, 

 Count Teleki in a southerly and I in a westerly direction, the 

 other side of the stream, whilst the men tried their luck at fishing. 



I found an open steppe on the west of the Kikaso, with 

 some pretty thick vegetation in the distance. The first glance 



