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ment by an ant-hill and looked around over the 

 wide plain. There were in sight a couple of gi 

 raffes, some solitary old wildebeest bulls, show 

 ing black against the bleached yellow grass, and 

 herds of hartebeest, topi, big and little gazelle, 

 and zebra. On another occasion, when with Ker- 

 mit, we inspected three rhinos at close quarters, 

 came to the conclusion that none of them would 

 make good specimens, and backed off cautiously 

 a couple of hundred yards to a big ant-hill. 

 From this point, there were in sight all the 

 kinds of game mentioned above except the 

 giraffe and little gazelle, and in addition there 

 were ostrich and wart-hog. 



One night when we were camped on the 

 western bank of the upper White Nile we heard 

 a mighty chorus. Lions roared and elephants 

 trumpeted, and in the papyrus beds, beneath 

 the low bluff on which our tents stood, hip 

 popotamus bellowed and blew like the exhaust- 

 pipes of huge steam-engines. Next day I 

 hunted the giant square-mouth rhinoceros, kill 

 ing a cow and a bull, and taking their skins 

 and the skeleton of one for the Smithsonian. 

 On the walk out, and but a mile or two from 

 camp, we had passed a small herd of elephants; 

 and on our return we found them in the same 

 place, still resting, with many white cow-herons 



