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down through the entire continent of Africa from 

 north to south. 



It was in the Kedong Valley just a few days before 

 our visit that there was a terrible encounter with 

 rhinos reported. I can do no better in describing 

 the tragedy than quote from the Nairobi paper of 

 May 4, 1926, which read in part as follows: 



WHITE WOMAN CHARGED BY TWO RHINOS 



Mrs. Bailey, wife of Mr. G. L. Bailey, of "Stem- 

 dale," Naivasha, is an inmate of Nairobi European 

 Hospital after being the victim of an experience 

 which comes within the lives of few women. She 

 owes the fact that she is still alive to some miracu- 

 lous intervention or accident of which she is quite 

 imaware. 



While hunting in Suswa, the moimtain which rises 

 above the great Rift Valley and is one of the breasts 

 of the Queen of Sheba in the mythology and ancient 

 history of Africa, she was charged by two rhinoceroses 

 and very seriously injured. 



This is the thrilling story of her adventure. 



Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were on safari and had 

 established their camp near Suswa for a week. On 

 the night before the accident they had been sitting 

 up for lions, and Mrs. Bailey caught a chill. On 

 the following day she decided that she would not go 

 far and she intended to spend an uneventful day 

 hunting around the camp for reedbuck with a small 

 rifle. Mr. Bailey departed with a gun-bearer to seek 



