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to give him his due, he never attempted to do 

 this. If I happened to glance over my shoulders 

 on occasions when a rhino was snorting in front 

 of us, I saw always a broad grin on Saasita's 

 face, although he was standing with no weapon 

 in his hand. He may have thought, reasonably 

 enough, that, if the necessity should arise, he could 

 get out of the way before I could ; but my ex- 

 perience has been that the African is a brave 

 man, and, if properly treated, can usually be 

 relied on. Tagarru marched three or four paces 

 in front of us. He kept a good look-out, and 

 made very good use of my Zeiss glasses. When 

 riding on the mule, however, owing to the higher 

 elevation, I was often able to see game before it 

 could be seen by the men on foot. 



I do not for a moment suggest that these 

 methods can be recommended for adoption by 

 others ; but they certainly suited me, and I 

 obtained better results by the use of them than 

 I could have obtained in any other way. With 

 the telescope-sight, I could usually make certain 

 of a shot up to a distance of 250 yards, and I 

 lost very few wounded animals. 



Some of the scenery on the lower part of the 

 Guaso Nyiro River was very beautiful, but the 

 country away from the river was arid and 

 uninteresting. We hunted separately, one of 

 us following the river to the camping-ground, 

 and the other making a detour and striking the 

 river somewhere near the spot where the camp 

 was likely to be. In this way we did not interfere 

 with each other ; and any danger of a mishap, 

 such as I met with on my first visit to Africa, 



