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are short and tipped with white ones, which are long, 
in addition to being furnished with dew-claws, and 
each of the extravagantly long and slender legs termi¬ 
nate in a pair of long toes and a short heel. 
Next day we moved some nine or ten miles farther 
west, until we reached the banks of the river we had 
already struck on our way to visit Mandara, and here 
we made an encampment some seven miles farther up, 
at a point where it changes its course abruptly from 
due south to east, and continues in that direction to 
the foot of the Pari mountains. 
We all went out shooting parallel to the track, and 
I was unlucky, although I viewed more game than I 
had hitherto seen in one day—giraffe, eland, harte- 
beest, zebra, rhino, bush-buck, buffalo, Granti, and 
ostriches; but the ground was bad for stalking and 
all the game very shy. I only obtained one long shot 
at a bull buffalo, but did not get him ; and the bag of 
all the rest only consisted of a water-buck, a mpallah, 
and a rhino. We halted at this camp two days, as 
Martin was laid up with a bad foot, and were out shoot¬ 
ing most of the time, but with indifferent success, as the 
game was so wild. I was particularly unfortunate, as 
I wounded a very fine bull buffalo out of a h^erd that 
we saw making for the bush in the early morning, 
but failed to secure him, and I also lost a zebra and 
an eland. To complete my misfortune, I shot at a fine 
wart-hog, and made a clean miss. 
B-had a great escape in the thick bush as he 
was picking his way along a narrow game-path bordered 
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