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the nuts. But before we had finished with
that trail I wished we had gone the other
way for slipping over morasses and sliding
into the water in the dark because lost
all its fascination before we reached camp
at 9 P.M. But, however, to my heart
was light & I would gladly have spent
the night out in the nuts if it had been
necessary to get the rand.
Harry was beginning to be very wonder-
when I reached the village. After bringing
in his sheep he had walked over to a
beautiful temple 4 miles away killed 8
hares. The skins of this ram & the rabbits were
spread for inspection on the floor of our
room, when he had killed a really mag-
ificent specimen with larger horns than
mine; I afterwards found them
to be a record in circumference being 19 3/4"
at the base 47" long. A Mr. Surrency had recorded
the previous record as 19 1/2 " on a head
which he pointed up for at this same
place 5 or 6 yrs ago.
As I struggled into other parts of
my sleeping bag that night, it seemed
to me that it had been one of the most
satisfactory hunting days of my
entire life, not only was my hand a
magnificent splendid trophy but others
and others were captured from the bushes.