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Safaris are coming in & going out continually & everyone except myself gets lions.
[[underlined]] Jan 6. [[/underlined]]
Settled up with Safari - hear my boat is 2 days late so need not go down to the coast before next Monday.
[[underlined]] Jan 7. [[/underlined]] Got a Cape Cart & drove out at 6 am to Mr Hale's farm to try and get a wildebeest. I found some a long way off about noon, but all efforts to stalk them failed. I shot 2 Coke's Kongoni - at 400 yards & 200 yards and a nice Grant. The latter I shot running at 150 yards out of the Cape Cart. My 4 mules bolted at the shot and we had a gay ten minutes careering across the Veldt before we stopped them. I had a Cape boy driving who was excellent. Got back about 6 pm. A very hot day and a long walk, but I got 2 fresh varieties theough I failed to get a wildebeest.
[[underlined]] Jan 8 [[/underlined]]
I drove out again at 6 am to try for a wildebeest. It had been a very wet night and the got got hung up at a river and I had to walk. I waded 2