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in a straight line. On these occasions the natives have a frantic 

 desire to get into the tents to be near the white men and the guns ; 

 the white men on the other hand have a frantic desire to get out 

 of their tents, and the resuU is a colhsion at the entrance. Two rhinos 

 came into our camp the same night. When the second one came, 

 Le Messurier heard it snort and the sound of its tramp, and just 

 then a native tripped over one of his tent ropes. He left the tent in 

 a hurry, but was met by twelve boys entering it at the same speed, 



Fig. 21. — A serval cub, one of our bottle babies. 



and the result was that he was thrown and injured his knee so badly 

 on a tent peg that we had to rush him back to Dodoma for medical 

 attention. This, and the fact that we had spent 28 days without seeing 

 a single young rhinoceros, made us decide to split up the expedition 

 even more. So Messrs. Runton and Le Messurier stayed at Kondoa 

 Irangi, while Dr. Mann secured the services of an additional hunter, 

 Mr. C. B. Goss, and went down the railroad to Ngere-Ngere, and 

 from there southward into the Tula and Kisaki districts to begin 

 another search for rhino. 



We saw, on the average, signs of five rhino each day, but again 

 neither young nor fresh tracks of young. So after 10 days, time being 



