. Hunting and hunted in the Belgian Congo . THREE LIONS AND NO RIFLE! one expressed a desire to carry back the body to camp,so I did not wait and trouble to have the thing skinned,as we had already more than enough to carry withoutcollecting snake skins. I have often regretted that I did not bring awaymany of the beautiful heads and horns of the great varietyof game bagged during this trip, but when on an elephanttrip you have to travel as light as possible to enablegreater distances to be covered. Until my friend andI joined forces again at the Osso River, each of myboys had to carry as much
. Hunting and hunted in the Belgian Congo . THREE LIONS AND NO RIFLE! one expressed a desire to carry back the body to camp,so I did not wait and trouble to have the thing skinned,as we had already more than enough to carry withoutcollecting snake skins. I have often regretted that I did not bring awaymany of the beautiful heads and horns of the great varietyof game bagged during this trip, but when on an elephanttrip you have to travel as light as possible to enablegreater distances to be covered. Until my friend andI joined forces again at the Osso River, each of myboys had to carry as much as he could possibly manage ;but when the two camps were united it would be mucheasier, as the loads could then be divided up betweenour boys. The tsetse fly worried the mules at Wadelai, andlarge fires had to be lit during the day to keep them tsetse fly is to be found chiefly on river banks, livingin the tall grass, from which it rarely follows man or beastfor more than half a mile. Not unlike the common housefly but slightly la
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