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merit by an ant-hill and looked around over the 

 wide plain. There were in sight a couple of gi- 

 raffes, some solitary old wildebeest bulls, show- 

 ing black against the bleached yellow grass, and 

 herds of hartebeest, topi, big and little gazelle, 

 and zebra. On another occasion, when with Ker- 

 mit, we inspected three rhinos at close quarters, 

 came to the conclusion that none of them would 

 make good specimens, and backed off cautiously 

 a couple of hundred yards to a big ant-hill. 

 From this point, there were in sight all the 

 kinds of game mentioned above except the 

 giraffe and little gazelle, and in addition there 

 were ostrich and wart-hog. 



One night when we were camped on the 

 western bank of the upper White Nile we heard 

 a mighty chorus. Lions roared and elephants 

 trumpeted, and in the papyrus beds, beneath 

 the low bluff on which our tents stood, hip- 

 popotamus bellowed and blew like the exhaust- 

 pipes of huge steam-engines. Next day I 

 hunted the giant square-mouth rhinoceros, kill- 

 ing a cow and a bull, and taking their skins 

 and the skeleton of one for the Smithsonian. 

 On the walk out, and but a mile or two from 

 camp, we had passed a small herd of elephants; 

 and on our return we found them in the same 

 place, still resting, with many white cow-herons 



