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off in frenzied hurry, leaving a cloud of dust behind. But I 
was not finished yet, and hastily jumping up and adjusting the 
sight to five hundred, I let fly at the same mare, now leading the 
troop at a gallop half cross side on. A cloud of dust thrown up 
by the startled troop as they turned at the shot and made off 
in another direction was the only visible result of the shot, but 
as they filed off, I counted them and found the number short 
of one. My boys came running up much disappointed that I 
had not killed at the first shot, and seeing me only standing, 
wanted to know what was the matter. I directed them to go to 
the spot where the second shot was fired; but they would have 
none of this, and urged me to follow the troop at a run imme- 
diatety. But as I insisted, they went to look with an air of 
dejection and disbelief at the spot where I knew the dead quagga 
lay, and shortly after I saw Chiki start at a run, and jump 
on to the body waving his spear in triumph. 
This time, profiting by our last lesson against the careless¬ 
ness about meat we had acquired on the Chobe, I had taken 
good care to have suf¬ 
ficient boys to carry in 
all that was shot. 
Of course as soon as 
we reached camp Makoyo 
came to demand his share 
of the meat that ‘his’ 
country had provided, 
and also complained that 
Hammar personally had 
made him no present. 
With the patent fact 
staring us in the face 
that without guides we 
DRINKING-VESSEL AND PATTERN ON EDGE OF SAME 
could never hope to find 
our way through these 
sand-belts to our destination, we favoured Makoyo with a 
shoulder of the quagga and another blanket and also a coloured 
