SHOOTING ON THE BUN TOYO 
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wild. I picked up the skull of an animal I had not 
seen before, which turned out to be that of a mature 
aardwolf. 
On our arrival at Edegan, two men came up who had 
been fighting at the wells the night before. One had 
received a spear through his hand, and the other one clean 
through his arm. A third lay stretched upon the ground, 
with a wound from a spear, which had gone in under his 
left eye, and out again at the back of his head, and yet he 
still lived ! A big fight seemed imminent, but our head- 
man settled their difficulties, after several hours’ palavering. 
One of the camel-men who was with me in my former 
expedition came in, said ‘ Salaam,’ and brought me a 
present of a fat sheep, a harn of camel’s milk, and two 
skin-bottles of goat’s milk. He had just returned from 
Abyssinia, having been with the English Mission, about 
which he gave me very full details. 
Next morning I left Edegan to explore the Toyo plain, 
and after a two hours’ ride I came to the edge of it, but 
saw nothing but ‘ owl ’ gazelle. On the way home I shot a 
Speke’s gazelle and saw a great number of jackal, the 
ground being literally honeycombed with their earths. At 
2 p.m. we struck camp and marched to the edge of the 
‘ bunker ’ Toyo. Here Mrs. Stanford shot an ‘ owl,’ and 
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did not reach camp till after dark, when we were beginning 
to fear she was lost. 
Early the following morning I went out upon the Toyo 
plain after hartebeest, two of which I succeeded in bagging. 
I spent nine hours upon the plain, and was thoroughly tired 
out when I reached camp. In the evening two of my men, 
who were watching my camels grazing, ran in with the 
news that they had run to earth a couple of hyaenas. 
After an hour’s digging I left my men to go on with the 
work, and went home. They followed me shortly with the 
bodies of two aardwolves, which they had dug out, but 
which they had unfortunately killed. This rare animal 
possessed very pretty thick fur. The body is striped 
