OUR THIRD SAFARI AND SECOND RHINO 



on our way back by train. We saw them joyfully 

 going off with their money, before we left the 

 camping ground at Naivasha. While we were 

 there they still took a fatherly interest in us, and 

 sold us their snuff-boxes, the buying of which was 

 most amusing. 



As we stepped out of the train in Nairobi 

 Station, several friends, who had come to meet us, 

 rushed at us and told us that my husband was 

 ordered off to Zanzibar at once. It was true in- 

 deed ; before we had been home half an hour a note 

 came from the colonel, saying he was sorry, but 

 that owing to shortness of officers in Zanzibar my 

 husband must go off immediately — for how long, he 

 told me later, he did not know, but two and a half 

 months at least. This was Saturday evening, and 

 a major was going on the following Monday, but 

 he would not hurry us (! !). He said we need not 

 go till the Wednesday ! It left us with only two 

 days to do everything, as Sunday did not count, 

 and to get off ! As the date of our return was 

 uncertain, the bungalow had to be left ready for 

 another man's use, and our furniture all sent down 

 to the auctioneer's to be sold, as the colonel would 

 not give us the smallest little room or place to store 

 it in. Even our best furniture had to go ; it was 

 eventually sold by the auctioneers for practically 

 nothing ; the boxes of stores were stolen, and other 



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