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The following morning we built a blind for flash- 

 lights. Lions were roaring aU about us all night 

 and it looked as if we might get something good, 

 though we were supposed to be on vacation. Again 

 in the afternoon we all wandered out to the waterhole 

 to see if it were being used. Hanged if we didn't 

 have the same experience as we had had the day 

 before. Just as we got set a rhino came charging 

 down upon us and didn't stop for men, women, 

 camera or anything else until Osa was forced to fire 

 at a distance of about fifteen feet, bringing the 

 lunatic down at the very last moment. This time 

 she went back to bed again for two days. Sister 

 Withall exclaimed: "One more rhino charge and 

 she'll be on her back for good." 



I forgot to mention that Osa now had a new 

 maid. This one's name was the usual xmpronounceable 

 kind. She had been brought to our place under 

 peculiar circimistances. Quite some time before, a 

 Boran had presented himself at my laboratory 

 door with my gim-bearer, saying that he had a cow 

 and calf for sale; that he was on his way down country 

 and the calf had just been bom. He wanted to sell 

 the cow and the calf to me. I learned that the 

 price was seventy shillings; as this figmre was a fair 

 one I made the purchase. 



When the transaction was over, one of my porters 

 stepped up and suggested that, as he had saved 



