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big circle round towards camp but saw nothing but zebra & a few kongoni and Grant. I shot one of the latter near camp, not a bad head. Earlier I hit a good warthog hard but he got down a hole and we could not dislodge him. I am having bad luck as I am not shooting at all badly, & have lost 3 beasts already.
Bates and I had started lunch when the sensation of the day came. [[line]] 
C arrived with a lioness skin & a mauled porter. Fortunately the latter was not torn much but had some nasty holes in his head, arm & hand - about 8 altogether. So we set to work at once & syringed them all out well with strong corrosive sublimate. He was awfully plucky & hardly winced when we syringed him and laughed over it. We then bandaged him well with a wad of boric lint soaked in the antiseptic over each wound. He had been mauled before & his head is deeply scarred already. C's story was that he first of all came