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the !iuge beast approached, he fired at her head ; the bullet only 

 served to divert her course, for she received no perceptible injury. 

 She broke away from the brush into an open, with Speke follow- 

 ing. He fired again, but the animal kept on and took to the 

 hills, crossed over a spur and entered another thicket. The 

 hunter kept up the pursuit, but as he carae to the head of a glen 

 he was greatly astonished to find three more rhinoceros, all of 

 which charged towards him. Fortunately the gun-bearers were 

 at his heels, and he was thus enabled to shoot all three of the 

 brutes ; one of them dropped dead, but the other two kept on 

 down the glen, though one had its leg broken. The wounded one 

 was given over to the natives, but so savage were its charges that 

 another shot was necessary before the negroes could dispatch it 

 with their spears and arrows. 



On the following day Speke called on the king and had the head 

 of the largest rhinoceros brought into court. Rumanika, in his 

 surprise, said : 



" Well, this must have been done with something more potent 

 than powder, for neither the Arabs nor Nnanaji, although they 

 talk of their shooting powers, could have accomplished such a 

 great feat as this. It is no wonder the English are the greatest 

 men in the world." 



Neither the Wanyambo nor the Wahuma would eat the rhinoc- 

 eros, so Speke was not sorry to find all the Wanyamuezi porters 

 of the Arabs at Kufro, on hearing of the sport, come over and 

 carry away the flesh. They passed by the camp half borne 

 down with their burdens of sliced flesh, suspended from poles 

 which they carried on their shoulders ; but the following day 

 Speke was disgusted upon hearing that their masters had for- 

 bidden their eating " the carrion," as the throats of the animals 

 had not been cut. 



PIGMIES AND GIANTS. 



IN confirmation of Musa's old stories, the king told Speke that 

 in Ruanda, a near country, there existed pigmies who lived in 

 trees, but occasionally came down at night, and listening at the 

 hut doors of the men, would wait until they heard the name of 



