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They were experienced men, and they kept their 

 ground. As soon as opportunity offered they lifted 

 the injured woman up — her face streaming blood — 

 and when she regained her feet, she discovered that 

 one of the rhinos was rapidly returning. The natives 

 dragged Mrs. Bailey into a dry water gully, and the 

 gun-bearer drove the animal off with rifle fire. Then 

 they set out to carry Mrs. Bailey four miles to camp 

 and luckily met another party of the camp porters 

 who had been in the same locality for the camp water 

 supply. Among them they brought her down, quite 

 unconscious, and one native hurried on ahead to 

 inform Mr. Bailey who met the party bringing his 

 injured wife about a mile from camp. 



On this trip Mr. Eastman used a shower bath of his 

 own devising that deserves mention. It is rare that 

 the explorer and traveller, no matter how he bathes, 

 can have a real shower in the field. 



The device consisted of a regular collapsible auto- 

 mobile canvas pail to the bottom of which was 

 attached a hose fitting. From the fitting led a 

 four-foot length of soft rubber tube, near the end of 

 which was a clothespin to regulate the flow of water. 

 Every evening after the day's himt Mr. Eastman's 

 tentboy, Abdulla, himg this pail on the front tent 

 pole about head high, put the zinc bathtub imder- 

 neath and filled the bucket with warm water. The 

 rest of the operation was left to the owner of the 

 mechanism. 



