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fleas. Abdu extracted mine skilfully, and the 

 place healed at once. Gimlette had a very bad 

 foot, which made him lame and caused him a 

 great deal of trouble. 



I saw large numbers of rhinoceroses in the 

 course of this expedition. On our march to the 

 Lorian swamp along the Guaso Nyiro, the 

 prevailing wind came from the north-east, and 

 while travelling up-wind, I have seen as many 

 as six rhinos in the day, many of them at close 

 quarters. Tagarru appeared to be absolutely 

 without fear of a rhino. On one occasion he 

 beckoned me, and I moved towards him with the 

 big rifle in my hand, and found him standing 

 about 20 yards from a rhino's head, the animal 

 being apparently quite unconscious of his presence. 

 The rhino had not a good horn, and I accordingly 

 did not shoot. One of the porters, whom we had 

 brought with us to carry any game we might 

 bag, followed me, and, finding himself confronted 

 with a rhino, sprinted at his best pace for the 

 nearest tree. This made me laugh, and the 

 rhino, roused from his meditations, retreated 

 into some bushes which were near. There he 

 stood, and began snorting so indignantly that 

 Tagarru himself suggested that we had better 

 move away. I took Tagarru rather sharply 

 to task for his rash conduct on this occasion ; 

 and he was more discreet in future. 



On another occasion, as we were walking quietly 

 along, there was a tremendous snorting in front 

 of us, and three rhinos dashed out of some bushes, 

 ran a little distance to our left front, and then 

 turned and faced us, apparently full of curiosity. 



