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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
CH. XVI 
Having completed that task, I determined to give the 
caravan one more day to recruit its strength before setting out 
on the journey to the foot of the Jambeni range—which 
would have to be accomplished by forced marches (“empty 
hands,” of course) so as to economise food,—in order that I 
might try and shoot them some meat. I accordingly went 
out early, with Baithai, on the second morning after our 
arrival ; and, luck being with me, I killed two giraffe, with 
one bullet each, out of a small troop I had stalked. I gave 
my Ndorobo friends one, and the “ safari ” the other, which 
provided abundance of meat for all hands, and made every one 
happy. The extra day’s delay gave me time to make some 
additions to my batch of letters for the mail, while the goods 
shed was repaired, the donkey boma strengthened, and our 
ivory buried. The camp was full of Ndorobos, and the men 
were very noisy; but, though rather disagreeable, I put up 
with that, as I like to hear them in good spirits. 
