A DAY'S SPORT AT TOADELOOK. 75 ten feet high. Dreadfully disappointed, they followed him, but saw no more of him in the jungle to which he had retreated.

Returning to camp, my brother (who had missed the lion) made a very long and successful shot at a gazelle galloping. If it had only been the lion instead ! The next day we all went out in parties of two, with our rifles, in hopes of getting a shot at buffaloes or other big v. game. Aylmer and one of my brothers followed up a large herd of buffaloes for some miles, only to see them disappear full pelt in a cloud of dust, a long way ahead. Antelopes were not very plentiful, but we managed to secure a fine bull tetel and a doe nelhit. This latter animal is a most beautiful creature, with a mouse-coloured skin ; it was the first we had met with that year. It is common in South Africa, where it is called koodoo; while in Abyssinia, and some parts of the Soudan, it is known as the agazin. We spent another day at Toadelook ; and, although finding no big game, secured three teicl, and so kept the larder well supplied, and had, besides, plenty of meat for our men. We had so many people about us, that we were enabled to shoot a great deal, and yet feel that nothing would be wasted ; we were always very particular about this, and never shot anything to waste. The sheik left us, as he said, to go a little farther up the Gash, where he expected to meet some of his horsemen returning from the Base with camels laden with dhiirra. As none of the Base we ever came across grew any worth speaking of, this was only a polite excuse, invented on the spur of the moment, for leaving our camp.

As large numbers of sand-grouse arrived morning and evening to drink, Lort Phillips thought it a good opportunity to test a clap-net he had brought with him from England ; and accordingly he set it close to the water, and, in one haul, caught