40 among the bushes and scrambling apart, it got snapped swiftly kicked it over. It wasn't yet dead and its agonies last two min cranes curling above my head. As they came over, I killed one dead with a charge of 6's - pretty fine shot for such a big bird. One rangel was being about the names when we galloped back to the carts and deposited the load. The boys were glad to see the birds go and 'throw' it everybody. These cranes are good eating, all's meat, as delicately flavoured as the one I killed in Germany. About 11 o'clock we saw a camel caravan approaching us from a distance. They were taking a short cut across the prairie, when just then it overspread, and we strung out in a long line behind a group riding abreast. Only a few eight could give an impression of the picturesque brilliancy of this procession. Three Lamas, dressed in blazing yellow robes ahead on mules, with two red- clothed Lamas behind. Their rich rich rode came men &