LAKE HANNINGTON 
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CH. XIl] 
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 flamingos. 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 away 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 
