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[[underlined]] Jan 3 [[/underlined]] 
An uneventful day. I saw som water-buck cows & one small bull & a Bush buck doe with a little one. Marched at 6 am & encamped at 12:30 - the first half of the way being very rough going. A bitter wind and a  hot sun. Sent a runner on to Gilgil with wires to arrange about catching the train th^[[insertion]]e[[/insertion]]re tomorrow evening with safari.
[[underlined]] Jan 4 [[/underlined]] 
Marched at 5:45 after a very cold night. A lion came to drink just below our camp early this morning within 100 yards & frightened my mule out of his 7 senses if he has any. After going about an hour, I saw some Tommies & no having had any fresh meat for 2 days, went after them. I shot at a very young buck with a rotten head & shot him right through the heart. As I fired a doe moved across behind him & got the remains of the bullet in her stern, breaking her back. A good shot for the pot.
A little further on I found some kongoni & thought I could make out Newman's.