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History Museum of an albino water-buck, said to 

 have been there obtained. 



I took the head of the rhino I shot, and, as the 

 skinning of the head and the drying of the skin 

 was a troublesome business, we left some of 

 our porters, with all the trophies, in a standing 

 camp at the place where I shot the rhino, and 

 picked them up on the return journey up the 

 river. 



We had no success with elephants, but might 

 have done better with these animals if we had 

 not been buoyed up with extravagant expectations 

 as to the number of them we were likely to see 

 at the Lorian swamp. On two occasions, on our 

 way to the Lorian, we ran into elephants in the 

 river. On the first occasion we came upon them 

 unexpectedly when we were marching with the 

 porters ; and, before we had time to organise 

 any plan of campaign, the elephants got our 

 wind and stampeded. We followed the tracks 

 for some distance, but the elephants were 

 thoroughly scared, and were walking very fast. 

 As Tagarru expressively said : " Him walking 

 like buni [ostrich]." We therefore gave up the 

 pursuit. 



On this occasion we only heard the elephants, 

 but upon one other occasion we both saw tuskers 

 and Gimlette had a shot at one. I had made the 

 detour on that day, and, as I returned to the 

 river, I saw a male elephant standing under a 

 tree in the open at some distance from the bank 

 of the river. We approached and lay in the 

 grass for some time, watching him from a distance 

 of about 200 yards. He was a big animal, but 



