CHAPTER III 
UNTRODDEN PATHS 
On the 5th of July I set out in company with Schubotz and 
Wintgens to explore the unknown country lying between the 
Kagera and the little river Kakitumbe. As none of us was 
acquainted with the actual conditions of the district, we kept at 
first in the vicinity of the well-watered brook. It was cool here; 
in fact, quite cold at night, and in the early morning a dense mist 
lay over the river valley. We found that our Celsius thermometer 
registered only J degrees, and we quickly crept into our winter 
coats. 
And so we drew away southwards along the course of the 
Kakitumbe. A hunter s surprise awaited me here. In the course 
of a short reconnaissance with Wintgens I observed, at a distance 
of not many yards from our camp, a strong troop of elands with 
a few powerful bulls among them. Ducking down immediately 
and keeping close to the ground, I crawled through the grass till 
I managed to get within shooting distance, when I brought down 
a young animal of a dark yellow colour, whose appearance had 
specially attracted me. Having secured the skin, we cut off the 
head and horns, and proceeded to fix up three hyena traps. Next 
morning we were surprised to find merely a broken-off under-jaw 
in the snare and nothing more. The hyena had actually managed 
to draw the trap some 400 yards away into the bush, and then 
forfeited its under-jaw as the price of escape. Truly a striking 
proof of the almost incredible hardiness possessed by certain 
classes of African animals. 
In the meantime our zoological collection had assumed such 
dimensions that Schubotz stayed in the camp to arrange and 
