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returned until after nightfall; and, tired though he was, 
he enjoyed to the full the walks camp ward in the bright 
moonlight among the palm groves beside the rushing 
streams, while the cicadas cried like katydids at home. 
The grass was long. The weather was very hot, and 
almost every day there were drenching thunderstorms, 
and the dews were exceedingly heavy, so that Kermit 
was wet almost all the time, although he kept in first- 
rate health. There were not many sable, and they were 
shy. About nine or ten o’clock they would stop feed¬ 
ing, and leave their pasture-grounds of long grass, taking 
refuge in some grove of trees and thick bushes, not 
coming out again until nearly five o’clock. 
On the second day’s hunting Juma spied a little band 
of sable just entering a grove. A long and careful stalk 
brought the hunters to the grove, but after reaching it 
they at first saw nothing of the game. Then Kermit 
caught a glimpse of a head, fired, and brought down the 
beast in its tracks. It proved to be a bull, just changing 
from the red to the black coat; the horns were fair—in 
this northern form they never reach the length of those 
borne by the sable bulls of South Africa. He also killed 
a cow, not fully grown. He therefore still needed a 
full-grown cow, which he obtained three days later. 
This animal, when wounded, was very savage, and tried 
to charge. 
We now went to Nairobi, where Cuninghame, Tarlton, 
and the three naturalists were already preparing for the 
Uganda trip and shipping the stuff hitherto collected. 
Working like beavers, we got everything ready—in¬ 
cluding additions to the pigskin library, which included, 
among others, Cervantes, Goethe’s 44 Faust,” Moliere, 
Pascal, Montaigne, St. Simon, Darwin’s 44 Voyage of the 
Beagle” and Huxley’s 44 Essays”—and on December 18th 
started for Lake Victoria Nyanza, 
