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being interrupted in his love-making. He began to 

 be very nasty, making short rushes at us and then 

 diving, fortunately, to come up a little farther off. 

 His behaviour soon induced some of the others to 

 follow his example, and I must confess I felt uneasy, 

 remembering the many tales I had heard of canoes 

 being upset in this v^^ay. 



Finally, we got by the side of another small floating 

 island about twenty-five or thirty yards from them, 

 and my companion refused to go nearer, greatly to 

 my disgust, as I wanted to get within ten yards if 

 possible. However, in the end, despite the difficulties, 

 I secured my pictures without anyone being injured 

 and we returned to Nairobi. 



Tuesday^, July 13th. — After having refitted in 

 Nairobi we moved out to a new camping place in the 

 bed of a dry river, which has, however, plenty of 

 permanent pools. Nothing very exciting occurred 

 during the day, although we were now in the centre 

 of the lion and rhino country, but we found night 

 to be quite a different matter. We are obliged to have 

 two men on guard all night, watching alternately. 

 They are armed with a Martini-Henri rifle, their duty 

 being to keep the fires going and to call us in case 

 of any special danger. However, although we heard 

 two lions roar, a hyena howl, and a rhino snorting 

 around, daylight found us still with whole skins. 



Wednesday, July 14th. — We went out on the 



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