SHIKARI WOUNDED 
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the skull. On his temple, which was much swollen, he 
had a small indentation. He jabbered away, half in 
Somali, half in English, but what he was talking about it 
was difficult to know. We waited by him for a bit, as the 
blood had stopped flowing, when suddenly he regained 
consciousness, and I asked him where he felt it most. 
He replied, ‘ On my behind.’ I turned him over, and 
found a small bruise only, where the horns of the ‘ rhino ’ 
had lifted him. He had a large bruise on his shoulder, 
which, however, was not broken. I had him carried home 
on a pony. When we got him home, the Somalis made a 
terrible din, jabbering nineteen to the dozen. The man’s 
skull was not fractured, for I could get my finger right 
through the gaping cut and feel all along the bone of the 
skull. I pulled the sides of the cut together, sewed them 
up, and put strips of plaster across to keep them well 
together, the Somalis trying to spoil all my work by push- 
ing a great piece of dirty wood into the wound, and then 
tying it round the patient’s neck with a*piece of string, offer- 
ing up all the while a kind of prayer for his safe recovery. 
After breakfast I ordered a camel to be got ready, and 
started away to cut off some mementoes of my first 
rhinoceros. Thinking that the other rhinoceros might still 
be lurking about looking for its companion, I took the rifles 
with me. On reaching the dead animal, we found the 
inevitable vultures in hundreds round the corpse. I took 
some photographs of the animal, and with great difficulty 
the Somalis cut off his head, his four feet, his tail, and a 
large piece of his hide, and loaded the camel with the spoils. 
The length of the rhinoceros was 10 feet 2 inches and the 
girth 7 feet. The horns were short, 11 J inches and 
5^ inches long respectively, and were very rounded at the 
tips, otherwise I think my shikari must have been killed. 
Coming home, we found the track of a lion of the night 
before going to the water. I had a bathe in one of the 
‘ wells,’ and then went and dressed my shikari’s wounds 
again before dark. The severance of the horns from the 
