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ridges into the Guaso Nyiro to lighten the camels. There 
was a distance of one hundred and twenty miles in a 
straight line to cover, and no one could tell when we should 
reach water. So it was with no little concern that we 
ventured on our last. plunge into the unknown. 
For the first four miles after leaving the Guaso Nyiro, 
the country was covered with luxuriant green bushes 
among which roamed many rhinoceroses. These rhino- 
ceroses struck me at once as belonging to a different species 
from any we had met with before. They were quite 
as large as the white rhinoceroses of the South, and 
their upper lip was not as pointed and overlapping as in 
the case of the ordinary black variety. Their power of 
resistance was quite proportional to their enormous size, as 
it took twice the number of shots to bring one of these 
beasts to the ground that it did to kill the black 
rhinoceroses. We had hardly marched ten minutes before 
one of these huge animals made its appearance directly 
ahead of us. As Dodson wished to have the excitement 
ot killing the brute, I handed himiamy <577, while| 1 
remained behind with the eight-bore. 
While the rhinoceros came charging down on us, Dodson 
waited until he got quite close, and then, with his first 
shot, broke one of his fore-legs. As the rhinoceros was 
now at our mercy, I tried several experimental shots with a 
45-90 Winchester at different parts of his head and body 
with as little effect as though I had been shooting with 
a pop-gun. After Dodson had finished his rhinoceros 
with another shot from the .577 in the neck, and we had 
marched on about a mile, a female rhinoceros, with a young 
one following close at her heels, darted out viciously from 
behind a bush, and charged at the leading camel. I dropped 
her on her knees with the first shot, but as she rose again 
the bullet from the left barrel of my express felled her a 
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