I noticed that it came to an end at a spot about three hundred yards to the rear of the tents, so I worked my way along its outer edge, and so approached the encampment from behind.
I had brought a rifle with me, not that I expected to shoot anything, but because the lion incident of the previous afternoon had taught me caution.

It had not entered my head that in that country a strange white man without a rifle might have been regarded as a member of the mean white class; nor that anybody would question my right to carry a rifle, for that matter.
The camp was awake now.

There were ten tents, all facing one way.

Two of them contained stores.

The central round tent with an awning in front was obviously a white man's.