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tracks for home, getting in just before dark, tiredand hungry, WhenI told 
Donaldson-Smith the events of the day, he at once remarked, ‘‘ Why didn’t 
you aim for the belly ? If youhad only done that at the second meeting, you 
would have had no more trouble.” I cursed myself for my perversity, and 
promising to take his advice on the morrow, I turned in early, after giving 
orders for two camels to be ready at daybreak with a couple of days’ food 
for myself and four men, Next morning I was up betimes, and started off 
with my little lot to the place where we had left off tracking the night before, 
Donaldson-Smith lending me his ‘577, taking 7 drams, which he guarantees to 
be a “ rhino stopper, ’’ and begging me to take his advice and aim for the mid- 
dle of the belly, low down, The sun's hateful majesty was very much in evi- 
dence yesterday, and I expect touched me up, as I had a bad head on waking 
up, and so determined to ride my camel until the tracks became fresh. I took 
Mahomed Midgan up behind me. He was very stiff after his shaking of 
yesterday, too much so to walk with us ; but he asked to be allowed to 
accompany me on the camel, so as to be in at the finish, a request which IT 
thought showed very proper feeling! Ialso took his dog along with me 
thinking he wight be of use. It was marvellous how the Rhino had plodded 
on, He had come toa standstill once or twice during the night, but had 
never lain down, and was still going. One or two checks in the high grass 
brought us to noon, It wasthen about time to give the baggage camelsa rest, 
as they had been out 5 hours and it was very hot and sultry, so I halted them 
for an hour, and had forty winks myself, for which I felt much the better, as it 
took away my head trouble which had been very bad ali the morning, 
About 1-30 we got on the trail again, It soon led us int» very heavy cover, 
high grass w.th clumps of tangled creeper thicket, in which it was impossi- 
ble to see a dozen yards ahead—just the place in fact for a wounded Rhino to 
take sanctuary in. It was very difficult to keep the track, or move at all quietly, 
but Abdi was in form to-day, and we struggled along with as little crashing 
of branches as possible. The dog Jenaada tuo came in useful in this 
labyrinth ; he did not help us with the tracking, but he kept running 
on ahead and returnins to us, and I thought he would very likely 
give us warning when we were coming to close quarters, We had been 
going thus for about an hour, when a violent sneeze hard by told u; that our 
friend was wide awake and had winded us. We could see nothing on 
account of the dense cover, and in a moment all was still again, hut Jenaada 
heard the sound too, and ran off enquiringly to our left front to see 
what it was. He soon returned, however, and from the direction 
to which he faced, and the way he sniffed the air, we had little doubt that 
the Rhino had broken back. We could not follow directly as it was im- 
possible 10 get through the network of undergrowth that intervened. so I - 
had to go back about 100 yards on our track, and then work round through 
a little clearing to my right, hoping thus to get a view, As a matter of 
