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they came into camp in high good humour, singing and 
blowing antelope horns ; and in the evening, after the 
posho had been distributed, cooked, and eaten, the 
different groups would gather each around its camp¬ 
fire, and the men would chant in unison while the 
flutes wailed and the buzzing harps twanged. Of course, 
individuals were all the time meeting with accidents or 
falling sick, especially when they had the chance to 
gorge themselves on game that we had killed ; and then 
Cuninghame or Tarlton—than whom two stancher and 
pleasanter friends, keener hunters, or better safari 
managers, are not to be found in all Africa—would 
have to add the functions of a doctor to an already 
multifarious round of duties. Some of the men had to 
be watched lest they should malinger; others were 
always complaining of trifles ; others never complained 
at all. Gosho, our excellent headman, came in the last 
category. On this Uasin Gishu trip we noticed him 
limping one evening, and inquiry developed the fact 
that the previous night, while in his tent, he had been 
bitten by a small poisonous snake. The leg was much 
swollen, and looked angry and inflamed ; but Gosho 
never so much as mentioned the incident until we 
questioned him, and in a few days was as well as ever. 
Hellers chief feeling, by the way, when informed what 
had happened, was one of indignation, because the 
offending snake, after paying the death penalty, had 
been thrown away, instead of being given to him as a 
specimen. 
The roans were calving in early November, whereas, 
when we went thirty miles on, at an elevation a 
thousand feet less, we at first saw no very young fawns 
accompanying the hartebeests, and no very young foals 
with the zebras. These hartebeests, which are named 
