Rhino, and how not to shoot them 



killed a rhino in the heavy bush. In this manner 

 he tempted me to push on into Ogaden ; but I 

 felt very selfish in even coming so far, as 

 Eustace's big 10-bore rifle, which he had brought 

 for rhino had come to a bad end in the encounter 

 with the lion, and he had no weapon to tackle 

 such a beast with, so that although he generously 

 agreed to accompany me, knowing how keen I 

 was on meeting rhino, I did not wish to keeP 

 him long, more especially as we soon found that 

 the heavy bush held no other game, excepting a 

 few gerentik, which, I suppose, live there, as, like 

 the rhino, they browse in preference to grazing. 



We arrived at our pools and found them three 

 in number, each about forty yards in diameter and 

 quite shallow, rather like an Indian snipe " jheel." 

 Tracks of rhino, about a week old, all round, were 

 encouraging; but the look of the dense tangle 

 of thorns all round prevented any great enthu- 

 siasm. Eustace at once got a beautiful gerenuk 

 buck. We had now, I regret to say, not had a 

 decent wash for a long time. We could never 

 spare enough water to fill our small indiarubber 

 bath, but the sight of the pools raised our hopes. 

 We accordingly reserved the cleanest-looking one 

 for our private use, and, deciding that such an 

 important event as a really good wash was not 

 to be hurried over, decided to have a " European " 

 morning on the morrow, combined with a bath 



