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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 
From the koodoo camp the two hunters went to Lake 
Hannington, a lovely lake, with the mountains rising sheer 
from three of its sides. The water was saline, abounding 
with crocodiles and hippos; and there were myriads of fla¬ 
mingoes. They were to be seen swimming by thousands 
on the lake, and wading and standing in the shallows; and 
when they rose they looked like an enormous pink cloud; it 
was a glorious sight. They were tame; and Kermit had no 
difficulty in killing the specimens needed for the Museum. 
Here Kermit also killed an impalla ram which had met with 
an extraordinary misadventure. It had been fighting with 
another ram, which had stabbed it in the chest with one horn. 
The violent strain and shock, as the two vigorous beasts 
bounded together, broke off the horn, leaving the broken 
part, ten inches long, imbedded in the other buck’s chest; 
about three inches of the point being fixed firmly in the 
body of the buck, while the rest stuck out like a picket pin. 
Yet the buck seemed well and strong. 
Two days after leaving Lake Hannington they camped 
near the ostrich-farm of Mr. London, an American from 
Baltimore. He had been waging war on the lions and 
leopards, because they attacked his ostriches. He had 
killed at least a score of each, some with the rifle, some 
with poison or steel traps. The day following their arrival 
London went out hunting with Kermit and Tarlton. They 
saw nothing until evening, when Kermit’s gun-bearer, 
Kassitura, spied a leopard coming from the carcass of a 
zebra which London had shot to use as bait for his traps. 
The leopard saw them a long way off and ran; Kermit 
ran after it and wounded it badly, twice; then Tarlton got 
a shot and hit it; and then London came across the 
