-^ Stalking Expeditions in the Nyika 



Standing motionless, they peer for a moment from the 

 undergrowth at the intruders, and then disappear in the 

 thick scrub. 



Now we hear a snorting- beneath us in an open space 

 in the valley. Two rhinoceroses, which have evidently 

 marked our approach for some time, but have lingered to 

 investigate us thoroughly by means of their sense of smelk 



»r .JM 



VULTURES ON THE WINC, 



break out, snorting like steam-engines, and at first make 

 directly for me, but then suddenly swerve, so that they 

 go crosswise over our path, and disappear in the valley 

 at the other side. 



Both monsters go raging thus over a perfectly open 

 clearing, not further than fifty paces from me, lifting up 

 their heads, which are ornamented with two enormous 

 horns, and tossinof them continuallv from side to side. 



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