WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



the region of the kHpspringer and the dassy, and also 

 meet two large herds of baboons. Having done all the 

 shooting of quadrupeds I want, I now pay attention 

 to the birds and secure a few white -crested turakoos. 



Half-way down I stop and search the steppe below 

 us with my field-glass. I can only make out a number 

 of moving dots, big herds of game no doubt. A few 

 hundred feet lower we meet large numbers of gnus, 

 zebras, impallahs, etc., going to their drinking-places. 



I had often climbed into the mountains of the Doenje- 

 Erok la Matumbato range. But I have resolved that 

 this expedition is to be the last. I feel some compunc- 

 tion at having again killed a number of rhinoceroses, 

 for self-protection to be sure, and yet to no legitimate 

 purpose. Besides, if I should go on visiting this moun- 

 tain region, I would surely find my death here sooner 

 or later, for I cannot forever depend on chance to rescue 

 me out of the very jaws of death. 



What I am telling here of the Doenje-Erok, regarding 

 the number of "pharus" met with by the hunter, 

 holds good also of the other mountain ranges of the 

 Masai-Nyika and Ndasekera. In this my report agrees 

 with the statements of Thomson, Count Telekis, Chanler, 

 Donaldson - Smith, and Von Hoehnel. They all have 

 met in the mountainous regions numerous rhinoc- 

 eroses. Yet the time of which I am writing is pass- 

 ing quickly. Professor Volkens, who lately spent two 

 years botanizing about the Kilimanjaro, says that he 



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