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lion hunt tomorrow & drive or burn all the likely looking places. This was the place the masai had so many cattle taken & we saw some tracks going to water this morning. A new moon tonight.
[[underlined]] Jan 3. [[/underlined]]
A Blank day as far as I am concerned & C also though he has gone out again for a couple of hours & may get something. We were off in the dark this morning & visited our kills at the first daylight, but they had none of them been touched except his Giraffe so we covered them up with thorn bushes & hope the lions may find them tonight. As we were coming up the Giraffe we saw 2 Hyenas that had been feeding on it coming back from water. We hid up & they came within 100 yards. C took one & I the other, but shame to say - we got neither though C hit his.
We soon after got on fresh lion spoor & followed it 3 or 4 miles, eventually losing it. A Rhino was sighted & we went after him, but he turned right away & was lost to sight. We hunted a