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[[underlined]] 31. [[/underlined]]
spent the night in the waiting room at Njoro.
[[underlined]] Dec 8 [[/underlined]]
Lady Delamere sent in a mule cart for maids to the station & we drove out in that to their place, arriving about 8.45. Found Delamere was out with Roosevelt trying to get a Bongo. Spent the morning there, our Safari arriving about 1. am when we treked on about 7 miles to the Dairy. 
I went out about 4.45 to see if there was any game about & not finding any tried to stalk a Bustard. He got up about 80 yards off and I had a shot at him flying, & hit him with a solid bullet in the rear cutting out his tail. He settled almost at once and I went up & flushed him again when he flew about 50 yards & settled again. I was looking for him when 2 Kongoni (Jackson's) appeared going to water. I ran & cut them off & got a shot at about 250 yds. I hit the bull through the shoulder. He lay down but got up when I went towards him & I had to give him 3 more shots to finish him. A good head. L went out the other way after some Zebra, but my shooting disturbed them and he did