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honey; but they found little except comb filled with grubs. 
Some of this was put aside for the bird, which ate the grubs. 
The natives believe that misfortune will follow any failure 
on their part to leave the honey bird its share of the booty. 
They also insist that sometimes the honey bird will lead a 
man to a serpent or wild beast; and sure enough Dr. 
Mearns was once thus led up to a rhinoceros. While camped 
on the ’Nzoi the honey birds were almost a nuisance; they 
were very common, and were continually accompanying 
us as we hunted, flying from tree to tree, and never ceasing 
their harsh chatter. Several times we followed birds, which 
in each case led us to bee trees, and then perched quietly 
by until the gun-bearers and porters (Gouvimali shone 
on such occasions) got out the honey—which we found 
excellent eating by the way. 
Our camp here was in a beautiful country, and game, 
for the most part Uganda kob and singsing waterbuck, often 
fed in sight of the tents. The kob is a small short-haired 
waterbuck, with slightly different horns. It is a chunky 
antelope, with a golden-red coat; I weighed one old buck 
which I shot and it tipped the beam at two hundred and 
twenty pounds; Kermit killed a bigger one, weighing two 
hundred and forty pounds, but its horns were poorer. In 
their habits the kob somewhat resemble impalla, the does 
being found in bands of twenty or thirty with a single 
master buck; and they sometimes make great impalla-like 
bounds. They fed, at all hours of the day, in the flats near 
the river, and along the edges of the swamps, and were 
not very wary. They never tried to hide, and were always 
easily seen; in utter contrast to the close-lying, skulking, 
bohor reedbuck, which lay like a rabbit in the long grass 
