GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



very long afterwards paid the penalty of his crimes, 

 and was killed. 



Two or three of the officers in Nairobi had been 

 mauled. After I arrived in Africa one went home 

 with his arm very badly damaged, but happily 

 clever doctors were able to set it right. This same 

 man had been tossed by a rhino, and jammed by 

 an elephant, but still he was an untiring shikari. 

 After I left, I heard that another officer, when after 

 a lion, fired, and when it charged him he got 

 frightened and made for a tree ; the lion was just in 

 time to scratch his foot, but no serious damage was 

 done. However, it made an excuse for plenty of 

 leave and more shooting. One officer was very 

 keen on pig-sticking ; but, alas ! the day came when 

 he was carried home eleven miles on a stretcher, 

 having stuck himself in the stomach instead of the 

 pig. I believe this was done by bringing his spike 

 across from one side to the other when after a pig. 

 Happily he was sewn up and quickly mended. 

 There was some rather good pig-sticking to be had 

 a few miles out of Nairobi. 



One kind man in Nairobi, who offered us the 

 use of his house while on leave, had had a very 

 serious adventure with a rhino. He had gone to 

 Lake Baringo (some miles farther north than where 

 we went on our last safari) for some shooting, it 

 being an excellent locality. He saw a rhino and 

 shot it ; as it fell and lay motionless, he, believing 



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