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were intently gazing in our direction, with fool and 

 bewildered solemnity ; and there we left them, su «ivors 

 from a long vanished world, standing alone ii- the 

 parched desolation of the wilderness. 



On another day Kermit saw ten rhino, none with 

 more than ordinary horns. Five of them were ui one 

 party, and were much agitated by the approach o. the 

 men ; they ran to and fro, their tails twisted into the 

 usual pig-like curl, and from sheer nervous stupidity 

 bade fair at one time to force the hunters to fire in self- 

 defence. Finally, however, they all ran off. In the 

 case of a couple of others a curious incident happened. 

 When alarmed they failed to make out where the 

 danger lay, and after running away a short distance 

 they returned to a bush near by to look about. 0"=^ 

 remained standing, but the other deliberately sat down 

 upon its haunches like a dog, staring ahead, Kermit 

 meanwhile being busy with his camera. Two or three 

 times I saw rhino, when roused from sleep, thus sit up 

 on their haunches and look around before rising on all 

 four legs ; but this was the only time that any of us 

 saw a rhino which was already standing assume such a 

 position. No other kind of heavy game has this habit ; 

 and, indeed, so far as I know, only one other hoofed 

 animal, the white goat of the northern Rocky Mountains. 

 In the case of the white goat, however, the attitude is 

 far more often assumed, and in more extreme form ; it 

 is one of the characteristic traits of the queer goat- 

 antelope, so many of whose ways and looks are peculiar 

 to itself alone. 



From the lily-pond camp we went back to our camp 

 outside Sururu's village. This was a very pleasant 

 camp because while there, although the heat was intense 

 in the daytime, the nights were cool and there were 



