CHAPTER XVill 
RETURN TO CARAVAN — NiGHT ATTACK BY A RHINOCEROS — THE AMARA 
DISPLEASED BECAUSE I WOULD NOT JOIN THEM IN THEIR Raip — “ TIME 
DOES NOT COUNT ’”? — THREATENING COUNTRY AHEAD — MucH GAME — 
THROUGH DENSE JUNGLES — WE FIND SOME Konso PEOPLE — THE 
CAMELS SHOW SIGNs OF POISONING FROM THE GENDI FLY —ON THE TER— 
TALA PLATEAU LANDS — ForcING THE NATIVES TO TRADE— AN ELE-— 
1 GIRL JOINS THE CARAVAN — OLA 
FINDS CLOTHES A NUISANCE. 
MN did not march back the way we had come, but 
took a more southerly course, camping after nine 
hours high up in the mountains. We passed much game, 
and I could have had any number of shots at forty yards ; 
but I contented myself with shooting two zebras, three 
gazelles, a hartebeest, and a rhinoceros, which supplied us 
with abundance of food to last a couple of days. I saw 
many beautiful finches on this march, black-colored, with 
a long tail, and back of head and throat red. Two of 
these birds I shot, and in the evening prepared their 
skins, as they were new to me. 
About midnight I was awakened from a sound sleep 
in the night by the well-known puffing of a rhinoceros. 
Every one was on his feet in an instant. My boys were 
ina wild state of excitement, as they had by no means 
recovered from the effects of the shock produced by the 
charge of the female rhinoceros that had “ boned ” my guide 
and Aden Aoule. I had just time to call loudly to my 
boys not to shoot into the camp, for fear of killing men 
