ANOTHER BUFFALO BAGGED, 205 that left a distinct blood-track sejoarated from the others ; and we followed it for some distance, until the sun going down warned us that it was useless to go any farther that night, and we returned to camp.

William and Lort Phillips had been out together, and had followed a herd of buffaloes which had been drinking and splashing in the river opposite our camp last night. They went a long way in the Meheteb direction, and separated, as the latter was following a bull. He could not get near it, and, having lost his reckoning, whistled, which startled the herd as William was getting near it ; and the buffaloes galloped off without his obtaining the chance of a shot. Later in the day William wounded one, but not badly ; and, as the afternoon was too far advanced to allow of his following it, he gave it up.

Arthur watched the pool of water in the kJior, and was rewarded by shooting two wart-hogs and a buck nellut, the lat-* ter of which he sent, as a bait for lions, to a spot where we frequently saw their marks.

March 21. — Sent George out for a day's shooting ; and he got a very large tetel, and a gazelle, and wounded a mehedehety which he lost. Arthur and William went to see if any lions had touched the nellut, but found no traces of any having done so. Lort Phillips watched 'the water,' and succeeded in shooting a small buck nellut. Colvin and I took up the tracks of our wounded buffalo of yesterday ; and, after going for about a quarter of a mile from where we had given up the pursuit last night, we found a place where it had evidently been careering about. Achmet at once declared that it had been attacked by hyaenas. Very soon we espied it quite dead. It was a large cow, which, in the thickness of the kittar-hMshs, we had easily mistaken for a bull.

/ There were the marks of several hyaenas on the ground, and