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3 Reedbuck and shot them as well as a marabout, 1 good head & 2 poor ones. I left 2 of them out for bait.
That made 7 different varieties in the day, 2 of which - Wildebeest & Reedbuck - were new ones.
An awful quantity of meat in camp.
[[underlined]] Jan 13. [[/underlined]]
C & I were away at dawn to visit our various bait for lions - but as usual a blank. I climbed a big hill at the back of camp & killed a good Impala on the top and a little buck, I think is a  Chandler's Reedbuck. Anyway it is a new specimen. I should have got another but for a miss fire. I found very little down the other side of the hill except enormous quantity of Impala and the customary Zebra &  Kongoni. It was very hot and I had just climbed back again to the top when out rushed a pig - a very big old fellow & gave me a chance of a snap shot as he bolted into the bush & I knocked him over stone dead. A lucky shot. A good head with fair tusks & some fine warts. Got in at midday to find C had only shot a colobus