WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



we drew near the hills I began to keep a very sharp 

 look-out for spoor, as I was most anxious to take some 

 pictures of Hons and giraffe and buffalo ; but, before 

 I had an opportunity of doing so, I had to pay the 

 penalty for squatting in the sun waiting for the hippo 

 to appear. A very nasty attack of " the sun," i.e, 

 diarrhoea and high fever, laid me out, rendering work 

 impossible, a fact which was the more annoying 

 because in one single day we passed over a dozen 

 rhino. 



Still, the hippo photographs remained. 



I have quoted, I think, enough of my diary to give 

 a fair idea of the usual round on the game-veldt of 

 East Africa. Really, as a rule, one week is much the 

 same as another, when you come to average up the 

 things that have occurred in it ; but there are several 

 incidents which I am going to treat separately, without 

 regard to chronological order, because they stand 

 out clear and sharp in my memory. 



The first is an adventure with a rhino in the Game 

 Reserve. 



Mr. Jackson, the Acting-Governor, having given 

 me permission to go into the Game Reserve for the 

 purpose of taking photographs of living animals, I 

 picked on Kiu as a suitable place for a base camp, 

 and trekked thither with my gear. My plan was to 

 find some water-holes and try if I could get flash-light 

 pictures of game and lions drinking. 



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