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when at a distance of eighty yards from him. The 

 bullet entered the chest of the rhinoceros and raked 

 the entire length of his body, passing out through his 

 quarter. As soon as it received the shot, the rhinoceros 

 fell dead. Many ostriches were seen, but they were so 

 wary, and kept at such great distances from us, that we 

 had not the good fortune to shoot one. 



Along the banks of the river we found several small 

 zeribas which had been inhabited by the Wanderobbo. 



Scene near Lorian 



These people I shall hereinafter speak of at greater 

 length. Let it suffice here to say that they are a tribe 

 living entirely upon game and wild honey. Wherever 

 we found signs of a camp which had been inhabited by 

 these people, we also discovered in its vicinity many 

 small, carefully erected blinds, in which it was evidently 

 the custom of these people to lie in wait for game. 



Late on the evening of January 18, we reached our 

 Christmas camping-place on the Guaso Nyiro. The 

 then most pressing question was, how to make our store 



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