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tsetse-fly ; but if that dread fly was about they could not 
have been in great quantities, as we failed to catch a 
single specimen. All sorts of others were in painful 
abundance, and the type of our common house-fly bit 
uncommonly sharp. 
As, with the exception of myself, our whole party 
were feeling seedy on the afternoon of our arrival at 
the new camp, I alone went out in the evening, and 
saw some distant buffalo, which got my wind at once 
and rapidly made off for the nearest bush. I also 
came across a colony of large baboons near the river, 
and sat down quietly to watch their movements. It 
was rather amusing to see how they stalked me, creep¬ 
ing like human beings about fifteen yards nearer every 
time, and then stopping to raise their heads most 
cautiously to see if I was still there. I remained 
motionless till one very big fellow, who stood about 
four feet high, got to within twenty yards, and then I 
quietly waved one arm ; upon this the whole troop 
went off rapidly with loud screams and barks. 
We stayed four days in our new camp, and had 
capital sport, securing several buffalo, water-buck, 
mpallah, wart-hog, and steinbock, in addition to a 
lion. H- killed one very good buffalo, forty-five 
and a half inches across the horns at the widest 
place, and I obtained a wildebeest twenty inches wide 
between the horns ; he was a solitary bull, and after 
my shot ran full tilt for two hundred yards before 
falling dead. It is the most wonderful transforma¬ 
tion-scene to see how wildebeest, from being perhaps 
