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goats and cattle, and met several of the natives who 
seemed pleased to see us, and greeted us with hand¬ 
shaking and jambos. 
I reached the camp at 2 p.m., thoroughly tired and 
rather footsore, which was not astonishing after a tramp 
of about eighty miles in the last forty-eight hours. I 
found H-and B-at luncheon with Mr. Jackson, 
an Englishman, who had been spending the three hot 
months at Taveta, and judging from the long rows 
of skulls and skins spread out to dry in the sun, he 
had done very well. His bag consisted of seventeen 
rhinoceros, ten buffalo, thirty-eight hartebeest, two 
lions, numerous varieties of antelope, besides wart-hogs 
and hyaenas ; a respectable collection, seeing that up to 
that time he had onlv been shootiim in the immediate 
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vicinity of Taveta. 
