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present. The country is almost devoid of game of 
any value, zebras and blue wildebeests being the only 
varieties. I shot an old bull giraffe three days ago, 
about the last of his race in these parts. 
Kleinboy and old Tebe each found a tooth yester¬ 
day near an old Kaffir State, where we outspanned; 
one in a tree, the other buried. The former is a very 
fine one, about 7 0 lbs. or more, and in excellent pre¬ 
servation, having only been killed very lately. We 
have come to some Masaras to-day, who, though old 
in years, never saw sheep before, and expressed great 
wonder at their tameness; one old woman followed 
them about for more than an hour. There is not one 
of my party, unfortunately, who can understand them, 
so that we can glean no intelligence or information of 
them. We have two Masaras who have undertaken 
to show us elephants for a consideration, which is to 
be forthcoming when their part of the agreement is 
fulfilled, and we are now on our way to the vley at 
which they say they drink, and were never yet 
hunted ; but now I am in fear and tribulation of 
falling in with the tsetse, which will kill all our horses 
and oxen, and leave us in a pretty fix. 
Yltli .—It may be the 24th for what I know, but 
it is Sunday ; our timekeeper, Woodcock, is asleep, 
having been watching by the fountain all night with 
the utmost patience, but nothing came except wolves, 
and quaggas, and Masaras. All is as usual, but we 
have been fortunate enough to find elephants once 
more, and, considering the fearful hack-thorn bush 
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