MY COMPLAINT RETURNS 



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and we had plenty of meat. We noted that buffaloes do not 

 fear rhinoceroses at all, but donkeys take to their heels directly 

 they catch sight of one. 



I had suffered so much again from dysentery from the 

 beginning of this march that I could hardly get to the camp on 

 the Guaso Nyuki, and as soon as ever I reached it I had to go 

 to bed. This was the beginning of a long dreary time of ill 



A EHINOCEROS ABOUT TO CHARGE OUR CATTLE. 



ness, but fortunately we were not just then obliged to be on 

 the move. At first I was now better, now worse, but then I 

 became so rapidly weaker that my end really seemed to be 

 approaching. 



Early in the morning of the 7th an old buffalo bull paid us 

 a visit in camp and received a charge in the shoulder from the 

 Count's rifle which brought him down. After this excellent 



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