104 WILD LIFE AMONGST BEASTIES him much. Malaria made him green and sickly, and he put himself under my care with all the abandon of an infant.

No longer was my water-bottle mouth cleaned with his finger, or the tumblers washed in dirty water, when I was not looking. He was relieved from the daily cleaning of my boots, which was such useless trouble, as they only got dirty again. The night-drink, so carefully placed just out of my reach, was attended to by others, and the demonstration of the way how not to do things was for the time suspended.

So I mixed him a drink made of the cream of tartar surrounding the pips of the tebeldi-tree fruit, which bears the same reputation as a febrifuge here as it does in South Africa. In this he had marvellous faith, and alternated it with quinine. I noted, on recovery, that he credited the native medicine rather than the quinine with his restoration to health.

An advantage of the Dinder at this season is the absence of mosquitoes, and it is only the attention of flying bugs of sorts which render the use of nets advisable.

A few miles onward, our camels lagging a mile or so behind us, we crossed a maya into the scrub beyond, and as we did so two great slanting necks appeared a few hundred yards away. The angle which a giraffe's neck makes with the line of ground-level is a peculiar one, and causes the appearance of an eternal yearning after something