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eggs, they soon burst. Evidently the young are hatched 
in the cool earth and dig their way out. 
We continued our walk and soon came on some kob. 
At two hundred yards I got a fine buck, though he went a 
quarter of a mile. Then, at a hundred and fifty yards, I 
dropped a straw-colored Nile hartebeest. Sending in the 
kob and hartebeest used up all our porters but two, and I 
mounted the little mule and turned toward camp, having 
been out three hours. Soon Gouvimali pointed out a big 
bustard, marching away through the grass a hundred yards 
off. I dismounted, shot him through the base of the neck, 
and remounted. Then Kongoni pointed out, some distance 
ahead, a bushbuck ram, of the harnessed kind found in 
this part of the Nile Valley. Hastily dismounting, and 
stealing rapidly from ant-heap to ant-heap, until I was not 
much over a hundred yards from him, I gave him a fatal 
shot; but the bullet was placed a little too far back, and he 
could still go a considerable distance. So far I had been 
shooting well; now, pride had a fall. Immediately after 
the shot a difficulty arose in the rear between the mule and 
the shenzi sais; they parted company, and the mule joined 
the shooting party in front, at a gallop. The bushbuck, 
which had halted with its head down, started off and I 
trotted after it, while the mule pursued an uncertain course 
between us; and I don’t know which it annoyed most. I 
emptied my magazine twice, and partly a third time, be¬ 
fore I finally killed the buck and scared the mule so that it 
started for camp. The bushbuck in this part of the Nile 
Valley did not live in dense forest, like those of East Africa, 
but among the scattered bushes and acacias. Those that 
I shot in the Lado had in their stomachs leaves, twig tips, 
