CEAL TER XV AL, 
MarcH TO THE GALANA AMARA (RIVER) — SHOOTING RHINOCEROSES AND 
ELEPHANTS — INEFFICIENCY OF LARGE—BORE RIFLES — MOSQUITOES AND 
GENDI FLIES —CAMP ON THE GALANA AMARA—— THE WoRK AT-— 
TACHED TO EXPLORATION -—A Bic ELEPHANT —I START FOR LAKE 
ApAYA— 'T'wo OF MY BOYS WOUNDED BY AN ENRAGED RHINOCEROS — 
DIFFICULTY IN URGING MY MEN tO FOLLOW ME— Beautirut LAKE 
AgpayA— Mucu ANIMAL LirE — THE COUNTRY TO THE NORTH, AND 
THEORIES REGARDING THE Omo RIVER — Many TRIBES — ORIGIN OF 
THE GALANA AMARA — SporT—A Hunory Lot. 
HE camp had been well supplied with food during 
my absence, Dodson having shot a zebra and a 
couple of hartebeests. In order to get around to the 
Galana Amara we were obliged to retrace our steps some- 
what, and cross the mountain range which lay to our west. 
The march was one of six hours; but the time passed 
quickly, as there was an abundance of game about. Early 
in the morning I shot two gazelles; and a little later, just 
as we had crossed the mountains, a rhinoceros appeared in 
the river valley below us. Motioning to the caravan to 
halt, I crept behind some bushes, and got a shot only thirty 
yards off. The animal dropped to his knees on receiving 
a bullet in his chest from my .577, but the next second he 
was on his feet again. He tore about madly for a time, 
and then plunged headlong into a thick bush, which he 
apparently tried to uproot; but another bullet rolled him 
over on his side. 
Hardly had we gone two hundred yards beyond this 
when I made out two elephant bulls dozing quietly under 
