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if my rifle is damaged, I shall be done for the rest of the trip.
I got in at 12 to find C had also got an oryx, a very fine one. He has been very lucky with his heads, his good ones are very very good.
The oryx are fringe-eared.
The porter we sent in to Nairobi with heads should get in this afternoon & bring a mail.

[[underlined]] Jan 20. [[/underlined]]

A good day for C again as he got a lion this morning - a good one with a good mane. It is funny how all the luck goes to him. We had been to visit our bait - to find it all untouched & were working down the river about a quarter of a mile apart - he nearest the river - when he saw 2 lions on the other bank. He ran to intercept them, but he did not do so. However they ran into Bates who was on the other of the river & he turned them back, giving C a good broadside shot at about 80 yards & he knocked one over like a rabbit. I knew nothing of it till afterwards and as he had a masai with him