CHAPTER VII 



Our guide told us that at a point two days' journey 

 beyond the Guaso Nyiro River we could find Wan- 

 derobbo able to conduct us. Our route to the Guaso 

 Nyiro River, at least as far as the Ngombe crater, was 

 the same as we had taken on our way to Lorian. 

 But two events of interest occurred on our way to 

 this point. On one occasion, two days' journey from 

 Daitcho, I descended from a slight rise at the head 

 of my caravan, and saw before me, browsing on the 

 plain not 300 yards distant, two rhinoceroses. The 

 wind was blowing from us to them, and I little ex- 

 pected that we should have opportunity to get near 

 enough to kill them. As I descended the slope 

 toward the plain on which they were pasturing, they 

 seemed simultaneously to become aware of our pres- 

 ence, and with a snort raised their heads, and gazed 

 in our direction. The action of each upon making 

 this discovery was different : one of them made off 

 as fast as it could canter in the direction of the hills 

 rising on our left, while the other, pausing for a mo- 

 ment, as if to make sure of our whereabouts, lowered 

 its head to the ground, and charged us in a deter- 

 mined manner. I called for my gun-bearer, Karscho, 

 but found that for some reason he had remained be- 

 hind for a moment; so that I was forced to seize a 



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