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march the first day. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford, who had a 
separate caravan and headman, preferred to remain a few 
days longer on the Toyo plain. 
Next day we marched through alternate thick bush and 
open plain, passing Goodooby. I shot an ‘ owl,’ a dibitag, 
and an oryx, the latter falling stone-dead at 250 yards 
(measured with my tape) with a bullet through the neck. 
We again marched ten hours during the day, and pitched 
for the night at a place called Gunder Libah. Here my 
men had a big fight, as usual, and were with difficulty 
MR. STANFORD ON HIS RIDING CAMEL, TOYO PLAIN. 
reduced to order. We made a very strong zareba at 
night, as we were in thick bush. 
We marched at 4 a.m. next day, past huge ant-hills, some 
of which could not have been less than 20 feet in height. 
Seeing the neck and head of a dibitag 100 yards away, I fired, 
and caught him right through the neck, so accurately was 
my Mannlicher sighted. We cut old lion spoor during the 
day. My headman, who had charge of some hawk-moth 
caterpillars for me, brought them to me at night, with a 
sorrowful face, saying : ' All dead, sahib — all dead.’ When 
