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troublesome beast, who was in the nightly habit of 
jumping into the drying-yard, and had carried off one 
of our goats and several fowls. 
The Bishop of Mombasa came to Taveta and spent 
a day with us on his way to visit Mandara. He had 
made the journey in eleven days, including a halt of 
two days at Ndara. This was uncommonly good going, 
but the loads told off to his porters were curiously 
light, two men carrying his bedding on a pole, 
when the whole load represented a weight less than 
one good porter is prepared to carry. Of course, the 
Bishop, coming from India, knew nothing about these 
matters, and the mission men no doubt imposed upon 
him; but it was, I fancy, originally the fault of other 
missionaries, who, as I have already shown, would not 
allow their adherents to carry a weight exceeding fifty 
pounds. I suppose it makes a difference when you 
are spending charitable old ladies’ money instead of 
your own. The Bishop was full of schemes, and 
proposed to make a proper road from Babai to Ndara 
and establish a camel clank; this would greatly im¬ 
prove the facilities for trade, as the road might be 
made at least thirty miles shorter. 
The others went out shooting most days while we 
were at Taveta, but I took things easy and looked 
after my heads and skins, of which I was beginning 
to get a pretty good show. Their bag included a 
lesser kudu, a rhino, an mpallah, a bush-buck, and 
a new antelope, the name of which none of us knew ; 
it was rather bigger and stouter made than a steinbock, 
