CHAP. XXII 



A RHINO CONCERT 



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previous day had been much better, was rather ill again, 

 so I sat up late that night helping to nurse and attend 

 to him. 



About midnight, just after I had gone to my tent 

 I heard a terrific din coming from the direction of 

 the waterhole which was some two hundred yards 



" A ROCKY RIDGE WHICH FORMED A BACKGROUND TO OUR BOMA." 



away at the back of our encampment, behind a 

 rocky ridge which formed a background to our 

 boma. I thought it would be most interesting to 

 go and see what all the disturbance was about, so 

 taking an askari with me I set out and carefully 

 stalked over the ridge and on towards the spot from 

 whence the uproar was coming. I expected to find 



