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Another bit of visiting came with Sister Withall, 

 the trained niirse that accompanied us while Osa 

 was convalescing after her pneumonia. She and Osa 

 struck up a great friendship. We finally asked her 

 to go out on a short safari with us. She had ntirsed 

 all over the world, Australia, New Zealand and 

 South America. She was among the first six nurses 

 to go out from England to Belgiimi when the war broke 

 out; and she was one of the last to leave when the 

 Armistice was signed. She married in Mombasa after 

 demobilization, her husband dying six months later. 



At the time the doctor said he thought it was unwise 

 for us to take a hard trip on account of our condition. 

 He approved of my suggestion that we try a safari out 

 on the Kaisoot Desert for a time. John Wilshusen, 

 who had saved our lives in the Willys-Knights, was 

 available and willing to go with us. So he brought 

 the cars down to Chogoria Mission station and 

 helped make a bed in one so Osa could travel. 



We promptly headed toward the desert and were 

 soon out of sight of the little station that had shel- 

 tered us through our miserable siege. Not three 

 miles away we ran into a pig hole. While we were 

 getting the car out Osa discovered two rhino slowly 

 walking towards us. At once I left the car with 

 my camera and imlimbered for some pictures. It 

 was not imtil the animals were within forty feet of 

 us that they discovered oiu" presence. For a moment 



