YUSIF SEIZED BY A CROCODILE. 359 
sixty grains in one day — put an end to the febrile 
attacks. 
While crossing the river, poor Yusif was very nearly 
dragged away by a crocodile. He and many others of my 
boys were in the middle of the stream, carrying over the 
sheep and goats, when a crocodile seized his left arm, and 
tried to pull him under the water. Yusif’s companions 
pluckily came to his aid, and managed to drive the croco- 
dile away, but not before the poor fellow’s arm was nearly 
torn from him. I was obliged to amputate the arm close 
to the shoulder. 
While I was engaged in operating on Yusif’s arm, a herd 
of elephants passed near the camp, but I did not go after 
them. 
For eight days we remained about the banks of the 
Guaso Nyiro. Dodson tried several times for elephants 
and rhinoceroses, and succeeded in shooting one rhino- 
ceros which charged him at close quarters. He gave me 
an exciting account of how he and three boys who were 
with him had been very nearly run down by the beast in a 
narrow alley among the bushes. At another time Dodson 
found himself almost under the head of an elephant, which 
was coming toward him, but fortunately the animal turned 
tail on seeing his mortal enemies. Much to the delight of 
poor Yusif, I succeeded in killing three large crocodiles 
directly in front of our camp. 
On the rst of October we struck camp and made a long 
march southward toward the Tana River. Nothing what- 
ever had been previously known of the country lying 
between the Guaso Nyiro, at this point, and the Tana. 
My Rendile guide, who now left us to return to Marsabit, 
could give us no information on the subject. We could 
only carry enough water to last three days, and in order to 
do this I was obliged to throw five thousand Snyder cart- 
