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and lost an impala.
When we got in, we found the porters we had sent into Nairobi for pocho had returned bringing a mail.
Spent the afternoon in camp writing [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] letters & seeing to skins & endless odd jobs. The flies are awful & the camp is pretty foul. We are sending our heads into Nairobi tomorrow & the skins to Bates Duka with a couple of porters to look after them.
[[underlined]] Jan 10. [[/underlined]]
Marched at dawn. on the way as C went to stalk some impala, a small herd of Topi ran across my front and I knocked over the two biggest, but alas both were cows. It was my own fault for being in a hurry & not looking at them with a glass. 
A long march & encamped on the edge of the forest. A nice camp but a long way from water. We are out of the thorn scrub now and in a lovely rolling grass country covered with patches of forest. Went into the forest in the afternoon to look of Colobus monkeys. I shot 2 & C 3.