My Success Was Hailed With Loud Shouts By The Soldiers; Who Came Running Out From The Camp As Soon As They Heard The Reverberation Of The Gun, And My Gun-Bearer Had His Knife At The Beast's Throat, Uttering A Fervent "Bismillah!" As He Almost Severed The Head From The Body.

Hunters were now directed to proceed east and north to procure meat, because in each caravan it generally happens

That there are fundi, whose special trade it is to hunt for meat for the camp. Some of these are experts in stalking, but often find themselves in dangerous positions, owing to the near approach necessary, before they can fire their most inaccurate weapons with any certainty.

After luncheon, consisting of spring-bok steak, hot corn-cake, and a cup of delicious Mocha coffee, I strolled towards the south-west, accompanied by Kalulu and Majwara, two boy gun-bearers. The tiny perpusilla started up like rabbits from me as I stole along through the underbrush; the honey-bird hopped from tree to tree chirping its call, as if it thought I was seeking the little sweet treasure, the hiding-place of which it only knew; but no! I neither desired perpusilla nor the honey. I was on the search for something great this day. Keen-eyed fish-eagles and bustards poised on trees above the sinuous Gombe thought, and probably with good reason that I was after them; judging by the ready flight with which both species disappeared as they sighted my approach.

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