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are fearfully tiring to walk upon, and my pony stumbled 
about on them in such a slip-shod manner that I expected 
every moment to feel how hard they were. 
For the last few days the heat was very great, and it 
was piteous to see how the animals suffered from thirst, the 
goats becoming so tame that they actually came into my 
tent and drank the water in my bath as I sat in it pouring 
the precious fluid over myself with a sponge. 
The whole of the next morning we marched over the 
horrible stones, seeing a great number of ‘ gussuli ’ antelope, 
HALT FOR THE MID-DAY REST. 
four of which I shot for the pot. Two of the males had 
very good heads. The nose of this extraordinary-looking 
animal is shaped like a miniature tapir’s snout. 
At noon we emerged into an open stony plain, in the 
middle of which was a deep well, the water bubbling up 
through the rock. Here were half a dozen Midgans, who 
on seeing our approach began to fix their poisoned arrows 
in their bows, but on our firing a couple of shots in the air 
they dropped them and sat down. They told us there were 
a great number of elephants in the neighbourhood, that 
