FISHES AND BIRDS— SHOOTING A RHINOCEROS. 2c 
there were chickens ; so, rowing out in a boat, we collected 
several dozen eggs, —enough to supply us with omelets 
for many days, and excellent omelets, too. 
I may say we lived very well on Lake Stephanie, for 
besides the cormorants’ eggs, there were many teal and 
whistling ducks about the marshes, the latter being very 
tender, and nearly equal to canvasbacks in flavor; and the 
lake also abounded in fish. Dr. Albert Giinther found 
two species of fish new to science in the collection I 
made on Lake Stephanie. There were many crocodiles 
and hippopotami in the lake, and they would often come 
quite near the boat, but they never ventured to attack us. 
Every evening great flocks of gray starlings with yellow 
wattles flew north past our camp, and myriads of aquatic 
birds circled about the lake. The mosquitoes were 
frightful at might, but a strong wind blowing from the 
southeast every morning drove them away. 
On June 1, just after starting for the caravan, the boys 
called to me that there was a rhinoceros near by. I has- 
tened ahead and saw the beast walking in the tall grass 
by the lake only eighty yards away from my camels. It 
was a bad place for a charge, as there was but one way to 
escape, and all my five camels were blocking this opening ; 
but as the animal commenced to walk toward us it be- 
came necessary to shoot. I let go at his shoulder, and 
a loud thud told me the bullet had struck the animal, 
but too high to kill him instantly. He was much hurt, 
but did not seem to recognize the position of his enemies. 
He tore about snorting for a few seconds, and then 
dashed off in an opposite direction, twisting and turning 
and puffing as only a rhinoceros can, until he got wind of 
the camp we had just quitted, when he dashed through 
the zareba, and commenced to stamp about the still 
burning fires. We were momentarily expecting that he 
