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C finished her. It was altogether the maddest as well as harest pursuit that could be conceived, but it has taught C a lesson & he will not do it again, and in future while we are here we shall hunt lions together.
The news of them is good. 3 were seen yesterday afternoon where I was this morning & we find the 2 Masai villages have moved owing to their having so many cattle taken. So we shall stay here for a bit & see what we can do. As we came down here after lions - it seems promising.
I went out this evening & shot 2 grant for meat, but failed to get any Zebra for bait. We must get a lot of them out to visit in the mornings.
The wounded porter is as well under the circumstances as can be expected. This is a very hot place but we have got trees to camp under; the dust is awful.