CH. XIV] ST.EEIMNG-SK KNESS FLY 399 



varied with brilliant blue and green. The fires seemed 

 to bother the bigger animals iiardly at all. 'I'he game 

 did not shift their haunts, or do more than move in 

 quite leisurely fashion out of the line of ad^'anee of the 

 Haines. 1 saw two oribi which had found a patch of 

 short grass that split the fire, feeding thereon, entirely 

 undisturl)ed, although the flames were crackling by some 

 fifty yards on each side of them. Even the mice and 

 shrews did not suffer much, probably because they went 

 into holes. Shrews, by the way, were very plentiful, 

 and Loring trapped four kinds, two of them new. It 

 was always a surprise to me to find these tiny shrews 

 swarming in Equatorial Africa just as they swarm in 

 Arctic America. 



In a little patch of country not far from this camp 

 there were a few sleeping-sickness fly, and one or two of 

 us were bitten ; but seemingly the fiy were not infected, 

 although at this very time eight men were dying of 

 sleeping sickness at ^^ adelai, where we had stopped. 

 There were also some ordinary tsetse fly, which caused 

 us imeasiness about our mule. We had brought four 

 little mules through Uganda, riding them occasionally 

 on safari ; and had taken one across into the Lado, 

 while the other three, with the bulk of the porters, 

 marched on the opposite bank of the Nile from Koba, 

 and were to join us at Xinude. 



It was Kermit's turn for the next rhino, and by good 

 luck it was a bull, giving us a complete group of bull, 

 cow, and calf for the National Museum. \Ve got it as 

 we had got our first two. Marching through likely 

 country — burnt, this time — we came across the tracks 

 of three rhino, two big and one small, and followed them 

 through the black ashes. It was an intricate and diffi- 

 cult piece of tracking, for the trail wound hither and 



