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The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had 
got inside the huge body, and had then bitten a hole 
through the abdominal wall of tough muscle and thrust 
his head through. The wedge-shaped head had slipped 
through the hole all right, but the muscle had then 
contracted, and the hyena was fairly caught, with its 
body inside the elephant’s belly and its head thrust out 
through the hole. We took several photos of the beast 
in its queer trap. 
After breakfast we rode back to our camp by the 
swamp. Akeley and Clark were working hard at the 
elephant skins; but Mrs. Akeley, Stevenson, and 
McCutcheon took lunch with us at our camp. They 
had been having a very successful hunt. Mrs. Akeley 
had to her credit a fine maned lion and a bull elephant 
with enormous tusks. This was the first safari we had 
met while we were out in the field; though in Nairobi, 
and once or twice at outlying bomas, we had met men 
about to start on, or returning from, expeditions ; and 
as we marched into Meru we encountered the safari of 
an old friend, William Lord Smith—“Tiger” Smith— 
who, with Messrs. Brooks and Allen, was on a trip 
which was partly a hunting trip and partly a scientific 
trip undertaken on behalf of the Cambridge Museum. 
From the ’Nzoi we made a couple of days’ march to 
Lake Sergoi, which we had passed on our way out; a 
reed-fringed pond, surrounded by rocky hills which 
marked about the limit to which the Boer and English 
settlers who were taking up the country had spread. 
All along our route we encountered herds of game. 
Sometimes the herd would be of only one species; at 
other times we would come across a great mixed herd, 
the red hartebeest always predominating ; while among 
them might be zebras, showing silvery white or dark 
