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answered, " Yes, I saw seven of them go that way just 

 now," reminding me of an English farm labourer 

 casually telling the huntsmen that the fox had gone 

 through the field in which he was working. He was 

 neither interested nor alarmed. 



Once more, thanks to this information, we got 

 on the track of the lions ; but though we followed 

 them for a good many weary miles, all our efforts 

 proved to be in vain. They were unusually waiy, 

 and, of course, their numbers were in their favour, 

 seven noses being better than one. 



Rhino were very plentiful round Sultan Hamud. 

 We found yet another that afternoon. He was resting 

 under a tree, and I got a most interesting film of him 

 debating in his own mind whether he should charge 

 us or no. In the end he decided to move off, and it 

 was extraordinary to see how quickly he carried out 

 his purpose, although there had not been the slightest 

 sound to disturb him. He had been standing there 

 dully, as though asleep ; in a flash he was gone. 



Of course, we approached him so that he could not 

 get our wind, and I can imagine him trying to make 

 out what we were as we crept down- towards him. 

 With his short sight we can have appeared only as 

 indistinct black objects. Unfortunately, that piece of 

 film was ruined at Nairobi. I had developed it and 

 was greatly pleased with the result ; then, leaving it 

 to wash, I went in to the hotel to lunch, thinking it 



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