LAKE RUDOLPH 



rhinoceros is esteemed a delicacy by Swahilis. For my own 

 part I never thought much of it, and the only part of this 

 animal I usually ate was the tongue, though rhino tail is very 

 good stewed (it takes about twelve hours' boiling to render 

 either tender) ; but my cook on this occasion concocted a dish 

 which converted me and which I can recommend as an entree. 

 He made me some rissoles of pounded liver and tongue (both 

 previously boiled), flavoured with the herb of my own discovery 

 to which I have previously alluded. These, nicely fried, are 

 first-rate. Feruzi called these triumphs of his skill " cartrets," 

 and I eventually came to the conclusion that he was trying to 

 say cutlets (though of course that was the wrong term for them), 

 but I would suggest that the dish may be called " pate de faro " 

 on the menu. 



On 24th December I bagged another rhino. We had just 

 had our usual short rest in the middle of the march, and I had 

 already shouted the order to " bandika," when, as the men were 

 beginning to take up their loads, I heard " Fau, fau ! " (an 

 abbreviation of " faro," the Swahili for rhinoceros), and looking 

 up saw a small and very thin rhino with long horns sauntering 

 very slowly across to windward of us. It had evidently not 

 heard us, though quite near, thanks to a stiff breeze that was 

 blowing. Telling the men to sit down again and keep quiet, 

 I took my .303 and went towards it, followed by Pice. I saw 

 it was hardly worth shooting for meat ; but as it had a fine 

 pair of horns and looked very small I was anxious to get its 

 head as a specimen of the Bassu variety. With a high and 

 favourable wind and stunted bushes between, I easily got close. 

 Then it, I suppose, heard mc, for it turned, and I at once gave 

 it a shot. On receiving the bullet it waltzed round and round 

 once or twice, and as it was moving away I put in a second by 

 way of making doubly sure. It then got behind some scrub, 

 and I set Pice on. His bark and its snorts showed me it was 

 close by, and I got up just in time to see it totter and fall into 

 a lying-down position, from which it never moved, I then 



