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some arc quite in the- open ; these latter are used 

 chiefly when the sky is clouded and the temperature 

 cool. 



Now we have to be very careful with each step we 

 take. Every animal that gets up before us now bush- 

 buck are tolerably frequent here of course makes us 



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stand still with bated breath, until we- arc: sure that it is 

 not a rhinoceros. 



When the undergrowth thins a little-, we can proceed 

 with less caution. IUit we come again and again, on 

 these mountain-ridges, upon thickets in which, as I 

 have said, any number of rhinoceros- lairs are to 

 be found. The thickets are much grown over with 

 the woodbine (Clematis snnciisis} called b the Masai 



ol orianene " whose leathery, white-flowering standards 



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