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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
than a red deer, with a close shaggy coat of coarse 
grey hair, and with thick annulated horns sweeping 
gracefully backwards. 
I found on my return to camp that C-had killed 
four mpallah and one Kirkii; H-- had fired at four 
lions without effect, and had seen several alligators on 
the shore of the lake. 
We all went out the next day, hut returned with 
histories of disappointment. I had shot a few guinea- 
fowl, when the men said they saw two rhinos, but I 
never got up to them although I travelled a long way 
in the direction they were declared to be taking. 
B- carried his explorations some twelve miles to 
the south, and wounded a hippopotamus which im¬ 
mediately disappeared from view, while Id- only 
secured one mpallah and a hartebeest. As the game, 
therefore, did not appear to be over-plentiful in these 
parts, we decided to waste no more time, but to return 
to Taveta and arrange a hunting expedition in another 
direction. 
In the evening we caught, on the lake, with our 
Seine net, several hundred fish of various kinds, the 
largest being Silurians, averaging from five to seven lbs. 
These hauls came in handy at that time, as fish are much 
appreciated by the Swahilis, and the Ughono (Ugweno ?) 
people, who had promised to supply us with food, never 
turned up—a matter of no surprise, as we afterwards 
found they lived in the mountains on the opposite side, 
a good day’s journey off. Had we proceeded another 
fifteen miles south we should have found any amount 
