CHAP. IX.] TWO THIEVES. ' 361 
distance, and was immediately chased and seized by a 
fish-eagle which, quite reckless of the gun, had been 
watching the sport from a high tree, and evinced a 
desire to share the results. My men, not to be done 
out of their breakfast, gave chase, shouting and yelling 
to frighten the eagle, and one of them having a gun 
loaded with buckshot, fired, and the whirr-r of the 
chaige induced the eagle to drop the duck, which was 
triumphantly seized by the man. 
The other thief was a native. I fired a long shot 
at a drake; the bird flew a considerable distance and 
towered, falling about a quarter of a mile distant. A 
Latooka was hoeing close to where it fell, and we dis¬ 
tinctly saw him pick up the bird and run to a bush, 
in which he hid it; upon our arrival he continued 
his work as though nothing had happened, and denied 
all knowledge of it: he was accordingly led by the 
ear to the bush, where we found the duck carefully 
secreted. 
June 14.—The natives lost one man killed in the 
fight yesterday, therefore the night was passed in 
singing and dancing. 
The country is drying up ; although the stream is 
full there is no rain in Latooka, the water in the river 
being the eastern drainage of the Obbo mountains, 
where it rains daily. 
