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with calves, browsing quietly on the tops of the Mimosa trees 
and totally unconscious of our presence, they were not more 
than five hundred yards away and were a beautiful sight as 
they moved slowly about from tree to tree, and we sat and 
watched them a long time. Almost directly after, going through 
open bush country, we saw our first Rhinoceros and great 
was the excitement; he was standing in the long grass tin- 
other side of a ravine and he ‘ winded ’ 11s directly and stood 
I01 a moment looking at 11s in an undecided sort of way. 
1 .. said In* was a small one and not worth shooting so we 
watched him as he slowly trotted off into the thick bush and 
we rode on wondering at tin- fact that we were really in tin- 
heart ot Alrica in the home of the Rhinoceros and (iiraffe. 
“ We passed several native villages, merely collections of 
mud huts surrounded by a thorn bonga or fence and all hidden 
away in the bush so that unless one walked right on to them 
one might appear to be miles away from any human habita- 
tion ; three of the women came to pay us a visit in camp that 
night, fine upstanding creatures, each with a little naked baby 
slung on her back ; their heads were shaved bare and their arms 
and legs were ornamented with large bangles of brass, while 
they wore many necklaces and chains and short skirts of dried 
skin. We reached the place where we were going to camp 
about 2 o’clock, and while the tents were being put up I took 
my gun and strolled down to the river, surprising on the way 
a party of enormous Dog-faced Baboons; they stood up on 
their hind legs just like men and looked at me and then ran 
off barking. 
“ Huge Turtles were floating about on the river and we 
caught some with a piece of meat tied to the end of a string. 
The butterflies here were magnificent, numbers of the Neptis 
genus, a splendid black and green Papilio, a Charaxes of a pink 
and white colour and very large, also a lovely golden coloured 
Theclid with very long tails, and two or three beautiful yellow 
Butterflies, and flying everywhere in the long grass was an 
insect much like our Melanargia galathea . which was in the 
greatest abundance, and other orders of insects were won- 
derfully represented, mantises especially being very varied 
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