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as a bait foi Hyaenas and \ ultures, meaning to return next 
day to see what was on it ; near camp I was much interested in 
watching through my glasses a pair of Secretary Birds (Scr- 
pcntarius secretarius) walking about and evidently hunting 
lor snakes ; I saw one or two nearly every day but they were 
shy and not easily approached, running quickly into thick 
bush if they saw any one approaching. 
“ Among the birds which I got in this locality was a Honey- 
guide ( Indicator indicator ), these birds have the remarkable 
habit of leading one to a place where there is a swarm of bees 
or honey, hence the name ‘ honey-guide,’ they fly from tree 
to tree chattering incessantly, and endeavouring to entice one 
to follow their lead ; if one follow the course it takes, it will 
stop suddenly at a certain tree and become quite silent, 
watching one intently the while, as much as to say : * There 
is the honey, take it out. and leave some for me ! ’ and sure 
enough, if one care to look for it. a bees’ nest will be found 
near by, in the ground or in the hole of a tree.” 
After two days’ more travelling we came to the Thika 
River and had a beautiful camp by the water’s edge, and in 
places the surrounding country was quite rocky with 
occasional stony kopjes ioo feet in height, it was at this 
camp that I shot my two Rhinoceroses one after the other. 
I had killed the first one and while 1 was photographing it 
as it lay on the ground, a second one came charging up, 
snorting loudly, luckily I had reloaded and a bullet from my 
.404 Express laid him low also : the largest measured thirteen 
feet long and over five feet high, and the other was not much 
smaller, with fine horns. We saw nineteen Rhino the following 
day ; one is only allowed to shoot two Rhinoceroses except in 
self-defence, and this is as well, as although in many places 
they are abundant, if ruthlessly shot they would very soon 
cease to be so ; I thought they were the most extraordinarily 
interesting animals, seeming like relics of some prehistoric 
age as they wander about in tropical Africa in exactly the 
same kind of scenery and places as their ancestors have 
inhabited for countless ages. The birds at this camp on the 
Thika and for the following three or four days were wonderful; 
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