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8 cups of tea a little later & lime juice & water soon put us right & C went out & shot 1 warthog & a Grant. I shot some francolins for the pot & Bates caught about a dozen fish. A bath this evening was a treat that would take a lot to beat.
We are going to stay here tomorrow & hunt the country round. The porters have had a terrible hard 3 days - about 60 miles - & very little water. One of them ran away on the march yesterday. I suppose he has made his way back as we have heard nothing of him. The heapara gets them along well & they seem pretty happy under the circumstances.
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We went to visit the Zebra at dawn. We had heard lions during the night & saw tracks from the water. There was nothing at our Zebra though he was about half eaten by jackalls. We then separated, I going up the River and C down. I had a stalk after 3 giraffes but failed to get close enough and did a