Mr. Churchill's Journey 



Colonel Wilson arrived soon after with the 

 news that he had shot a small bull. We were all 

 most awfully pleased, as he thoroughly deserved 

 every bit of luck, since he persevered day after 

 day with untiring energy to make a collection 

 of good trophies during his stay in Africa. 



A little later Mr. Churchill turned up with his 

 party. They had not come across any elephant, 

 but had succeeded in bagging a fine specimen of 

 a much more important animal, the white rhino- 

 ceros. It was feared that this enormous beast 

 had become almost extinct in the south, numbers 

 having been killed there years ago, so the fact 

 of their living in this neighbourhood was a most 

 important point to be able to clear up. Mr. 

 Churchill had gone out in the same direction 

 as yesterday, and, on reaching a small rise in the 

 ground, had come across two or three of these 

 huge animals — pa, ma, and baby, perhaps — 

 wandering about quietly feeding. Taking every- 

 thing into consideration, it was a great day ; 

 not only were elephant and rhino bagged, 

 but all the visitors had their fair share of sport, 

 and the highest of high -class sport into the 

 bargain ! There was great rejoicing in camp in 

 consequence, and I won't take any oath that a 

 bottle or two of fizz wine wasn't " buzzed," quickly 

 followed by some of the very finest old " B.C." 

 brandy ! 



Next day we all disappeared in different direc- 



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