CH. XXII 



A RHINO CONCERT 



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previous chiy had been mucli better, was rather ill 

 again, so I sat up late that night helping to nurse 

 and attend to him. 



About midnight, just after I had gone to my tent 

 I heard a terrific din coming from the direction of 

 the waterhole which was some two hundred yards 



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"a rocky RIIK-.F, \VI1I(I[ FOKMKD a F.ACKGKOUNl) TO OUR lUlMA." 



away at the back of our encampment, behind a 

 rocky ridge which formed a background to our 

 boiua. I thouQ^ht it would be most interestinof to 

 go and see what all the disturbance was about, so 

 taking an askari with me I set out and carefully 

 stalked over the ridge and on towards the spot from 

 whence the uproar was coming. I expected to find 



