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daily ! When on the march they both had to be carried 
in hammocks by two men. 
In the afternoon twenty horsemen turned up and gave 
us a tomasho. I was getting positively sick of these 
silly* shows. Stanford brought me two far sheep which 
the Sultan Muther had given him for me. 
Next morning Stanford went to look for a white man, 
who was reported in the neighbourhood, but could not find 
him. Mrs. Stanford and I tracked a leopard, which had 
stolen a goat from one of the villages. We at length 
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discovered that the leopard had placed the remains of the 
meat in a high thorn-tree. We left it until the afternoon, 
when, on one of the shikaris going to build a zareba under 
the tree, he found that the remains of the goat had gone ; 
no leopard track was visible, so that the meat had probably 
been taken away by some half-starved man or woman. 
Mrs. Stanford, however, sat up all night over a live goat 
tethered under the tree. What a surprise for the leopard 
on his return, to find his goat had come to life again ! 
However, he did not put in an appearance. 
Next day we interviewed Nur Boora, King of the 
