SMALL GAME IN THE SUDAN 97 smelling smoke of such woods as sandal or talh has a much more useful effect, as it replaces the characteristic odour of the African human with that of a vegetable.

The gummy material on the grass-stems, so coveted by Arab beauty, and gathered little by little into quills as we progressed, was in fact deposited by the civet-cat, and my strictures on the taste in native perfumery in this country must be modified by the fact that the musk when properly treated, combined with other substances—and, I should say, vastly diluted—is used as a base in Europe for many varieties of scent.

My friend of the empty stomach had the laugh over me one day—mirth joined in by his fellows.

FHtting in the alternate shade and sunlight of the trees, I saw a bird with golden wings, and flight erratic as that of a snipe. I coveted it as a specimen — not to eat, as the clown naturally thought—and after much trouble fired, and it fell. A long search ended by the discovery of a bat, whose wings were transparent yellow in the sunshine. Big-game shooting is not supposed to include such small deer as this, and when the boys saw my disappointed face, and that I proposed neither to eat nor to skin it, I was thought a fit subject for quite respectful amusement.

It is well that the number of reed-buck which may be shot in one season is limited, for their flesh, being very passable eating, renders them preferable as fresh meat. Waterbuck is quite impossible to 7