26th August 2000
Tjololo was still resting when we found him in the river. Before sunset he was on the move, but trying to remove ourselves from the reeds we fell into a donga, stuck!!! Probably some 10minutes later after much jacking we were out and on the trail of Tjololo. We headed west some distance but didn’t find any further sign of him, retraced our steps and found him sleeping again not even 20m from where we’d been stuck.
After dark he was on the move to his western boundary and then headed north along the Sand river where in the early hours he surprised a pregnant bushbuck doe and treed her before feeding. He seemed to go for the foetus first before feeding on the rest of the carcass.
After he’d had himself a good meal we tucked into ours. The sandwiches were great as usual with homemade bread and a steak filling. Then tea time. Dale has coffee at night. He was the first to be ‘poisoned’. All he had was hot water. Richard tested his, tea bag and no sugar and I then found mine to be the same. All our flasks were undrinkable. We even thought of mixing them all but with no sugar it just wasn’t going work. Solution – send Dale back to camp and start again.
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