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were being slowly exhausted by the necessary pur- 

 chase of food ; and the state of my health was such 

 that I could not go shooting, and thereby relieve in 

 great measure this drain upon my stores. I felt as 

 if caged in a trap, depressed with sickness, irritated 

 by the delay, and anxious for the safety of George 

 and his party. Finding us more anxious than ever 

 to purchase food, the Daitcho people mercenarily 

 attempted a rise in the prices ; but after summoning 

 Bykender, and giving him clearly to understand that 

 we would continue to pay the prices we had been 

 paying, no more nor less, the people gave up their 

 attempt at extortion. 



In a few days the men I had sent to replenish the 

 store at Sayer returned. The party was composed 

 entirely of the new-comers, and their leader reported 

 that they had been mutinous and troublesome on the 

 march. 



During the rains three small antelopes visited the 

 hill just above my camp, and I was able to secure 

 one of them. I felt convinced that it was a new 

 species ; so I carefully preserved its skeleton and skin. 

 It proved to be a species of red buck heretofore 

 unknown, and has since been designated " Cervicapra 

 Chanleri." 



Of the party who had been sent to Ukambani to 

 purchase goats, five deserted for no apparent reason, 

 and of course took their rifles with them. Shortly 

 after the return of this party and those sent to re- 

 plenish the store at Sayer, all the new-comers came to 

 me in a body, and said that they could not bear the 

 insolence of the Somali and Soudanese. As I had 



