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by the European residents. Finally I jumped a hare which ran straight away & knocked him over easily. Then we had lunch & I skinned the hare which as a nursing ♀. [[strikethrough]] In the [[/strikethrough]] At 3 P.M. we again went beating with the dogs & Grierson got a shot at a [[strikethrough]] rat [[/strikethrough]] hare but missed it. The Old dog Sport finally came to a point in a bush & I went up & flushed a covey of 7 francolin 2 of which I shot (a right & left) Then we turned back to the road & the dog Sport trailed a ♀ pheasant 50 yds & then flushed it. Albertson shot it & it proved to be a Amherst. On some of the side hills I saw burrows of Bamboo rats where the green grass was just springing up after burning. The day was partly overcast but without rain & very pleasant. The dogs were interesting & gave us all our bird shots but they flushed no hares.