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had to fast for sixty hours. It came about on this 
wise. Mr. Pickering had a bad foot and could 
not walk. Upon Mr. Chapman fell the duty of 
stocking the larder. He went forth, rifle in hand, 
prepared to do his best. He followed up wart-hog, 
hartebeeste, antelope, veldebeeste, zebra, water- 
buck and reed-buck for two days; but it was not 
until the third day he managed to bring down a 
roan antelope, and their long fast was over. We 
all remembered our short rations in war days. Let 
us not forget that our brave missionaries in West 
and South Central Africa were allowed no food 
from England, and had to live upon their old sup- 
plies, the produce of native farms and the fish of 
the rivers and beasts of the bush. Their rifle was 
their very good friend in those trying times. 
