. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . ■m^. .^f^ IX THE SUK COUNTIIY, Donkey-transport cut off by river coming down in flood. ORYX, ELAND, IMPALA, ETC. 103 liad wounded, but had unluckily been unable to comeup with it ere darkness set in. We therefore decidedto remain at this camp till we had secured our one bulleland apiece, that being the limit allowed by law. Agrievous disappointment awaited us next morning. Wehad both at this period been suffering from the severework entailed by the constant crawling after oryx,hartebeest, etc., over the hard, fl
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . ■m^. .^f^ IX THE SUK COUNTIIY, Donkey-transport cut off by river coming down in flood. ORYX, ELAND, IMPALA, ETC. 103 liad wounded, but had unluckily been unable to comeup with it ere darkness set in. We therefore decidedto remain at this camp till we had secured our one bulleland apiece, that being the limit allowed by law. Agrievous disappointment awaited us next morning. Wehad both at this period been suffering from the severework entailed by the constant crawling after oryx,hartebeest, etc., over the hard, flinty ground. Cuts andabrasions, skinned knees and scarified forearms are thenormal condition of the white-skinned hunter in Africa,but to-day (September 8) my brother was totally disabledfrom walking, one knee being swollen to the size of a pumpkin. Accordingly, I had to start alone, W shouting after me in the darkness to get him a bullalso, should a double chance occur. Nothincj seemed lessprobable, since after tramping more than two monthsI had never, up to then, set eyes on a bul
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