his toe-nails. A species of grey plover, and ducks of half a dozen different colours and sizes, were to be seen in every direction. I shot many sperm-wing geese, which, though rather out of season, were much liked by the caravan. Hippopotami were comparatively scarce, the natives having learnt how to kill them by spearing, or with the ordinary hippo trap. This consists of a spear fixed in a beam, suspended in a likely place near the river bank, the suspending cord being fastened to a trigger placed in the hippo's way.

In the villages in which we camped we often found the heads and teeth of hippos, wart hogs, and wild pigs, and occasionally a buffalo or antelope horn. Although elephants and buffalo are numerous all over this district, they are seldom molested, as the natives stand in great awe of them. On the 20th of