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up; f four inches, and his 



mds, for he was not fat. We 



started for camp, which we reached after 



thunder-storm in the south-west, and 



hat burned behind us the rain clouds 



di\ gorgeous hues. Then daylight failed, the 



md, as we made our way across the form- 



the half moon hung high overhead, strange stars 



rhe brilliant heavens, and the Southern Cross lay 



above the sky-line. 



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ii next camp was pitched on a stony plain, by a 

 ruling stream-bed still containing an occasional rush- 



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!' |_ fringed pool of muddy water, fouled by the herds and flocks 



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I z of the numerous Masai. Game was plentiful around this 



| if camp. We killed what we needed of the common kinds, 



and in addition each of us killed a big rhino. The two 



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[ s rhinos were almost exactly alike, and their horns were of the 



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3 so-called "Keitloa" type; the fore horn twenty-two inches 



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J ~<, l n g> tne rear over seventeen. The day I killed mine I used 

 | % all three of my rifles. We all went out together, as Kermit 

 J was desirous of taking photos of my rhino, if I shot one; 

 he had not been able to get good ones of his on the previous 

 \ day. We also took the small ox wagon, so as to bring into 

 | camp bodily the rhino if we got it - and one or two zebras, 

 of which we wanted the flesh for the safari, the skeletons 

 for the Museum. The night had been cool, but the day 

 was sunny and hot. At first we rode through a broad val- 

 ley, bounded by high, scrub-covered hills. The banks 

 of the dry stream were fringed with deep green acacias, and 

 here and there in relief against their dark foliage flamed 

 the orange-red flowers of the tall aloe clumps. With the 





