OUR THIRD SAFARI AND SECOND RHINO 



hearing the second shot, two porters ran, only to 

 see the rhino disappear over a rise. My husband 

 went on and on, and we followed panting, up hill 

 and down dale (it reminded me of my old beagling 

 days), till we came to a Masai kraal, but lately de- 

 serted. I climbed on to the top of one of the mud- 

 dung covered rows of huts to scan the country, 

 making Mark follow. The Kikuyu crept into the 

 huts to see what they could find and they got — fleas, 

 by the dozens, and were kept busy like so many 

 monkeys afterwards, picking them off, 



Moses sat inside the boma and also got covered 

 with fleas, and had to undress to get them off. Pre- 

 sently they lighted a fire — although fearfully cold I 

 kept my seat on top, as I never was very fond of 

 fleas. 



Presently two warrior Masai came along ; I 

 wondered what they would say, but I commanded 

 Moses to tell the men to look for the wounded 

 rhino, and they should have money. Through my 

 glasses, on a neighbouring rise I saw a rhino and 

 my husband creeping on his stomach towards it ; he 

 got to within fifty yards, and fired, and then I saw 

 it was not our old friend, but a cow with a young 

 one. He shot her in the shoulder, the young one 

 was hidden behind its mother, and off the two went 

 like the wind, over the rise, and I saw them no 

 more ; nor did my husband, although he followed 

 them up for a long time and hunted about in vain, but 



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