LETTER FROM SIR R. G. HARVEY. 
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third, and on returning to camp found Hunter had shot three 
and a great bustard. Being seedy in the night, and the chance of 
any further varieties of game being remote, I resolved to stop in 
camp. Greenfield and Hunter, however, went out; the former 
shot two topd and the latter a kuru (water-buck). At twelve 
o’clock Martin and During arrived with the small dhow and canoes. 
We then settled that they were at once to go on and meet us next 
day at a place called Ngatama. We started next morning from 
our camp near Mingala, intending to join the boats at Ngatama. 
After marching three and a half hours I asked where Ngatama 
was, and 1 was told that it was considerably to our right, the 
other side of an almost impenetrable swamp. I therefore sent 
a letter to During telling him to go on to Dera. which I was 
told would be the next place at which we should touch the river. 
We then marched on for another two hours to a place where 
the Gallas said there was water. After hunting about for a 
long time in the thick bush it was at length found, and the men 
proceeded to cook their food. They were, however, so long over 
it that we only made another hour and a half that evening, and 
encamped in the open. The day following, after three hours’ 
march through thick bush, we emerged on a considerable-sized 
piece of water covered with Wa-kopomo fishing. During the 
rainy season, when the Tana is at its height, this piece of water 
is connected with it. We stopped here during the heat of the 
day under some shady trees, and marching during the afternoon, 
reached the Tana. Here we settled to await the arrival of the 
boats, but the chief of Koso, the principal village of the Dera 
district, having invited us to his village, we next evening marched 
there, and encamped in his plantations. The chief appeared 
well disposed, and said he would get us three guides for 
shooting next day. 
Hunter and I went shooting in the morning, and having 
crossed the river in a canoe, after a long tramp through a 
swamp reached dry land. We then separated. I shot a fair 
kuru and a tope, and Hunter a kuru. 
During the morning I came across a party of Wa-kopomo 
