142 WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES 



Range, where he got a few more, and a rhinoceros 

 with a wonderful front horn of forty inches. 



He mentions seeing later an even more remark- 

 able horn than this, killed in the same district, 

 which measured forty-eight and three-quarter inches 

 — about a record for Black Rhinoceros. 



The same day he met with three different small 

 herds of elephants, and killed eleven, getting three 

 right and lefts.^ Once he had to beat a hasty 

 retreat, as a swarm of bees attacked him. 



Elephant hunting was very difficult and dangerous 

 work in the dense leafy jungles of the Kenia forest, 

 and resulted in many blank days. 



Then he went back to the Gwaso Nyiro River. 

 Here he shot a few cow elephants, and then went 

 back to Laiju, sent his ivory to the coast, and went 

 north to look for elephants, in July 1894, to the 

 Ndorobo country. His main camp was at El Bogoi, 

 in the Lorogi Mountains, head waters of the 

 Mackenzie River, a branch of the Tana. 



From here he made his first trip to the waterless 

 country south of Rudolf, which was a failure, and 

 no elephants were killed. He then returned to El 

 Bogoi. 



However, better luck ensued in September round 

 El Bogoi, where he killed several cows, and later, 

 on the Seya, some fine bulls. On November 15th, 

 1894, he returned to Laiju. 



In December he went north to Lake Rudolph, and 

 struck it at the south-east corner on December 6th. 

 On the east side and far to the north-east of the 



^ One day five bull elephants walked right up to him in the 

 open, and were within ten yards before they saw mm and turned. 

 See Frontispiece. 



