332 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
in spite of every precaution the meat disintegrated in the 
alcohol, and there was nothing left of them when I got 
them to England. This was the only variety of fish that 
I saw in any of the lakes or rivers of which I was not 
successful in bringing out a specimen. We also caught 
some of the curious eel-like fish, Polypteros bichir. 
Our course now led us for three marches across a point 
of land at a considerable distance from the lake. It was 
here that Count Teleki’s expedition suffered so much from 
thirst, but we fortunately succeeded in finding water in 
NEAR MOUNT LONGENDOTI. 
two places near Mt. Longendoti. We saw many rhinos at 
a distance, and three of the beasts, which were actually on 
our line of march, I killed. One of these I bowled over 
with a single shot from the .577 express as he was char- 
ging. Theanimal lay on the ground about a minute before 
he died, uttering all the time those ridiculous squeaking 
sounds that would seem to belong to a guinea-pig rather 
than to such a large beast as a rhinoceros. Dodson also 
stopped a charging rhinoceros by a well-directed shot in 
the chest from the .577. On August 19 we arrived ata 
village of Burkeneji Elmolo, a little north of Elmolo Bay, 
containing about seventy huts. 
