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find him, and it was near midnight ere they could carry 

 him into camp. By indomitable pluck he reached 

 Baringo, carried in a litter, on the second morning ; but 

 it was not till the eighth day after the accident that the 

 doctor arrived and the necessary operations could be 

 performed. Poor Eastwood lost his right arm, but 

 otherwise bears no trace of his terrible experience. 



Another rhino incident. Mr. Long-Innes, whom I 

 met close by Baringo, had just had this curious adven- 

 ture. While passing Lake Hannington on his way up, 

 he suddenly saw the beast lying asleep beneath a dwarf 

 mimosa, and only a few yards from the track. The 

 rhino sprang to its feet in a blind charge. The Kikuyu 

 gun-bearer with the rifle having promptly taken to his 

 heels, Innes had no resource but to bolt the other way, 

 but pitched his white Panama hat behind him as a blind. 

 The rhino momentarily halted at this bait, but, seeing 

 the flying Kikuyu beyond, transferred attention to him, 

 and speedily overtaking him, " chucked " the luckless 

 "boy" over his back, then continuing his course. 

 Curiously, the Kikuyu was not seriously damaged. The 

 blunt horn of the rhino had caught him under the 

 chin — a blow thc.t would surely have broken a wh'te 

 man's neck, but in the savage it merely produced 

 " contusions" ! 



