By this time I was heartily tired of the biltong, so taking my elephant rifle--for I had nothing else--I left Tota with Indaba-zimbi, and started to try if I could shoot something.

Oddly enough we had seen no game all the day, nor did we see any on the subsequent days.

For some mysterious reason they had temporarily left the district.

I crossed the little streamlet in order to enter the belt of thorns which grew upon the hill-side beyond, for there I hoped to find buck.

As I did so I was rather disturbed to see the spoor of two lions in the soft sandy edge of a pool.