THROUGH DENSE FORESTS AND JUNGLES. 21a 
the stream, and then, after marching a short distance the 
other side, camped just as it was getting dark. 
“ On the march we passed a herd of Coke’s hartebeests, the 
first we had met with since we left the Boran country. I shot 
at one of these animals, and the blood that flowed from his 
mouth afterwards proved to me I had mortally wounded 
him; but just as I was about to follow up my quarry my 
boys called to me that a rhinoceros was charging them. 
After making a vicious run toward the caravan for a few 
yards, the rhino suddenly changed his mind, and made. off 
before I could run up and get a shot. We were much 
surprised that the beast did not continue his charge, 
which he commenced with such vim and noise. I then 
tried to find my wounded hartebeest; but as my boys 
needed pushing, I had to abandon my game after a very 
short search. It was all I could do to get my men to go 
farther, as they had had so many difficulties to overcome. 
“ Fuly 29. The whole of this morning the work of the 
last two days was repeated, but in the afternoon we fol- 
lowed a game path that led through the darkest forest. It 
was most arduous creeping through tunnels in the under- 
brush of a forest of tall trees, where it was so dark at times 
that we could not distinguish a man’s face twenty yards 
away. We often went close to the river-bank, and here 
we found the footprints of three natives, probably bee- 
hunters. Occasionally we were startled by troops. of 
Colobus monkeys, who threw sticks at us. The forest 
was full of mosquitoes, and the atmosphere was damp 
and cold, and a most unhealthy place to spend the night 
in. At four o’clock there seemed to be no chance of our 
getting out of the forest before night. On and on we 
went, having to stoop most of the time to get through the 
tunnels, and it began to look serious when another hour 
had nearly passed and there were no sions of the trail lead- 
