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near Sina, and this condition of rivalry proved to our 
advantage, as it made either chief strive to outdo the 
other in helping us. At the same time, I agreed with 
B-that our friendliness with both was rather like 
running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, 
and not unlikely to land us in a row sooner or later. 
Sina’s people who were with us tried all they knew to 
get us to go up the mountain and visit their chief at 
once, holding out as an inducement the prospect of 
plenty of elephant, kudu, and other game. However, 
we did not half-believe them, and thought better to first 
explore the bush and plains we were now approaching. 
On breaking up the camp we continued our march 
due west, through thick bush, which after a few days 
becomes very monotonous, until we reached the Weri- 
weri, and encamped near the widest river-bend we 
had yet come across. There was a large pool close 
to our camp, full of fish, and TI- declared he saw 
one quite twenty lbs. in weight. The neighbouring 
high trees were occupied by a colony of marabout 
storks, and I shot one specimen for the sake of his 
splendid tail of greenish-black feathers, overlying 
others which are of spotless whiteness and as soft as 
eider down. IT- shot a magnificent bull buffalo 
in the evening, with a spread between the bend of the 
horns of forty-one inches, and only ten inches less 
between the tips. He reported that, after going west 
for two miles, and crossing the Kikavo, another stream 
that joins the Weri-weri lower down, he came upon 
more open ground, and saw four great herds of buffalo. 
