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(180) set near the river only an “hannonysa hypoxanthus énd & Lophuromys which 
was a very large %. 11: Rermined in camp. 7.R. sent in tvo * Cobue 
coba. Lt oanght a 9 Otorys, two lun minimus and tro Lohpuromys in about 
two dozen traps, also one fenecttae Satched for bets during the cl ear 
evening along the river but saw nonee 12: Went out Frith the bwanas +o 
assist in driving @ large (161) swarnp near camp. K.s.K. and Tariton re- 
mained on one side and 7. and myself on the other while some 50 porters 
welked through the reeds shouting and beating with their sticks, “he 
swamp was en open reed affair Like gisnt flag some 6 feet highe Sone 
dozen ¥ bushbusk and 2 ad. ¢ were driven out, one ¥ and e young 7¢ being 
shot by 7%. Most of these buck ley very close and were only moved when 
the porters ceme within a few yards. Sone even bolted beok through the 
porters. About 6 % reedbuck were Slushed but no males. “hen frightened 
these bounded away in high very graceful leaps with the heads held up- . 
right. About 2 miles of swamp wan beat but no other animale were flushedes 
he only birds seen were a pair of Stinx? and several jack snipes. 
Caught in the traps in the morning & femple blaek-backed jackal and a ¢ 
spotted hyaena, one Srocidura and 3 Obomya and 2 Lophuronys. In the P. i. 
K.R. shot & large Uganda leopard cna a 7 defassa.e 13: Gaueghnt snother 7 
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Hysena croouta and a ¢ jacksl where i saugnt the other *, apparently the 
mate of the first one. In the mouse traps I had & dormouse and & young 
Grocidura. 7.R. went ont with Tarlton and sent in a d defassa and 6 kongoni 
for meat and the skulls for specimenp. E.R. shot & large 0 Gefassa, & g 
kob and a Gd kongoni and found a ¥ kab dead which he had wounded the day 
before. 9,R, wounded a bushpig, one of & nerd of 6 Khe saw in the Long 
grasse 14: Moved camp a fev miles to & sranp above the escarpment. 
Caught nothing in the traps. Met Akeley and anfari who made camp near 
our old cemp a few hours (185) after we had left. On the way back in the 
long grass of the escarpment saw a herd of 10 elephants, & cows and two 
younge ‘“e stalked these and got quite close and KR. took some snaps of 
the herd. They wandered about in the open grass country in a close forma- 
tion oceasionally breeking down 4 thorn bush with their trunks or sniffing 
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the wind for danger. We left them at 13 AvM. in the bright sunshine 
moving slowly over the flat. ‘amped near a lerge swamp at 6500 feet alt. 
183) 15: 7.R, went out with Akeley and FR, and Tarlton for elephant 
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ularly the herd of cows seen yesterday. “hey came up with them in the 
Pi. end TR. shot 3 corsa and ¥.R. one of the totes. They saw only the 
common buck during the trip. 1 set three treps in some Aardvark burrows 
when out of one these bolted a good sixed warthog &s8 we &pproached 
and bolted away in a great hurry acnompenied by «& rain of 22 bullets from 
the antomatic. Caught tro Mus Jacksoni in traps set about trees. Vent 
duck hunting in the awemp and rhot ? ducks of 3 species. An e1a hippo 
cane out of the swamp last night about 7,50 Phe and frightened some 
of our porters ¥ho were bringing water from the edge of the swampe Saw? 
none today and not many tracks in the swamp. 16: 7.2. returned from the 
elephant hunt but brought in no buck. About the elephant kill he heard 
lions and many hyaenas which Laughed mich when the lions roared. In the 
morning they found one of the hyaenes asuent in the carcas by the neck. 
Ye had eaten his way through the side and forced his head through one 
of the intercostal spaces and could not drav hin head out again, Caught 
on the open reldt 2 large Matera, 2 Arvicanthus masaicus, and in the grass 
near the avamp one Pelomyn like those taken at Holo four years ago, and 
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one of the large Crociduya martiennsent. In the late P.M. we drove the 
swamp for buck with 100 porters tat Mlushed nothing. Caught ea dlack- 
backed Jackal in one of the ardrark burrovse 17: Moved camp to the deep 
Ravine where the large maned lion was seen on the way out. On the way we 
saw many kongoni and a few zebra and oribt. Sawa herd of 6 topi with some 
kongoni, 7.2. shot four of then, all of which were cows. Saw one other 
topi with kongonl. Drove the ravine as noon for lion but flushed (186) 
nothing, not even a buok of Any ind. During the night { caught only two 
young Tatera and one black-backed jackr1. 18: During the night we were 
serenaded by many spotted hysenas at apparently very close quarters, Shot 
na nuriber of the quinea *HWE pigeons tn the ravine where they fre very 
common, They slight only in olive or ninilar trees, never in Acacia or on 
the ground. “Lushed one Abvesinian dutker. Saw a bunch of five of the 
red ground monkeys at 400 yards, One was very large, twice the size of 
the other four, evidently en old male with four ferples. They were all 
quite rufous on the back and rump with pure white bell fes and grayish heads. 

