CHAPTEE 11. 
Sitting up at night for a lion — Shooting on the Bun Toyo — Fight in camp 
— A sleepless night in a zareba — We sight a fine lion — ^We encounter 
natives armed with rifles — Tracking a leopard— A baby rhinoceros — 
Reports of lions — Firing the bush for a lion. 
Next morning we did not go out shooting, not wishing 
to disturb the lion, and at nighty two zarebas having 
been built, I entered one, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanford 
the other. Donkeys were not procurable, so we had to be 
content with tethered sheep. It was a clear, moonlight 
night, and the noises in the village were kept up until a late 
hour, so that I did not expect a royal visit. We had 
hardly been in the zareba twenty minutes, when a hyaena 
appeared, some 1 5 yards off the sheep, and showed up clear 
in the moonlight. After staring at the sheep for a minute, 
he charged it full tilt, but we kept him off at the point of 
the spear. Shortly after another hy^na charged, and all 
but got hold of the sheep, which jumped to and fro, and 
dodged in a marvellous maimer. The hymna got the spear 
well into its ribs, and then retired. The night was so hot 
I could not sleep, and at 5 a.m. they let us out of the zareba. 
We then marched to Edegan, our whole caravan having 
arrived. Here some new wells had been dug for the first 
time this year. The route lay through park-like country, 
short grass, and tall thorn-trees. We saw two large 
bustards, about twenty hares, and a large pack of jackals. 
The hares were together, and must have been a different 
kind from those generally seen, which live singly or in 
pairs. I was very anxious to shoot one, but they were too 
