TREKKING THROUGH THE THIRST 



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on the march 



by Edmund Heller 



by the fact that the forests contained junipers; but they 

 also contained monkeys, a small green monkey, and the big 

 guerza, with its long silky hair and bold black-and-white 

 coloring. Kermit, Heller, and Loring shot several. There 

 were rhinoceros and buffalo in the neighborhood. A 

 few days previously some buffalo had 

 charged, unprovoked, a couple of the 

 native boys of the mission, who had 

 escaped only by their agility in tree- 

 climbing. On one of his trips to an 

 outlying mission station, Mr. Hurlburt 

 had himself narrowly escaped a seri- 

 ous accident. Quite wantonly, a cow 

 rhino, with a calf, charged the safari 

 almost before they knew of its pres- 

 ence. It attacked Hurlburt's mule, 

 which fortunately he was not riding, 

 and tossed and killed it; it passed 

 through the line, and then turned and 

 again charged it, this time attacking 

 one of the porters. The porter dodged 

 behind a tree, and the rhino hit the 

 tree, knocked off a huge flake of bark AH ask. n duty 



j i 111 1 From a photograph by J. A !at 



and wood, and galloped away. Lonn f 



