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began to graze in our direction. Suddenly he got otir 

 scent and came for us in sliort goose-like jumps. 

 Then when his little near-sighted eyes focussed on 

 our party he stopped and pawed up the ground as if 

 to say, "Come on, I dare you to fight." Then he 

 charged. It was funny to see nine boys and myself 

 trying to climb that miserable little thorn tree after 

 Osa when there certainly wasn't room for more than 

 three of us. Fortunately Mr. Rhino decided that he 

 had taught us a lesson. He circled the tree with his 

 little tail stuck straight out and then dashed off. 



A somewhat appropriate accident happened just 

 when we were working back from our base and were 

 passing through some of the plains country inhabited 

 by the irritable old rhino. We had left several cars 

 at a place called Merille. Millions of bees had 

 colonized oiu" camera boxes built into the bodies of 

 the machines. We tried every way we could think 

 of to drive the insects out but they went right back. 

 I tied mosquito nets over myself and went in with 

 sticks and scraped the boxes clean of bees. The 

 angry creatures swarmed about me until I could not 

 see. Then they got inside the netting. In a frenzy 

 I ran away tearing off the netting as I went. Osa 

 and the boys came to my assistance, as a result of 

 which everybody got stung. Boculy had one eye 

 shut ; both my ears were swelled to twice their normal 

 size; and the bees were back in the cars. 



