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a moth or leg of a beetle becoming detached, it will be caught 
and kept from being broken. 
Next day we marched towards the zebra plain again, and 
as we proceeded down-wind the whole day, sport was in 
consequence but poor. We tracked a rhinoceros for a long 
way, but he ultimately got our wind and decamped. The 
same thing happened when we saw four zebra. As we 
marched, one of my camels, which had contracted a bad sore 
back from being carelessly loaded, fell down and utterly 
refused to get up again. I was obliged to shoot it and 
march on. I took its head as a trophy. This was the 
third camel I had lost since leaving Berbera. My caravan 
always looked an imposing spectacle when on the march, 
the camels beino- tied together in lon^ strino-s, the tail of 
the foremost being attached to the head of the second, and 
so on down the line, which often reached a distance of 
upwards of half a mile. 
Next morning we marched north and crossed the spoor 
of three ^ rhino ’ all walking together, but the noise of the 
camel-men, who were not far behind us, must have disturbed 
them, as we soon afterwards found by the tracks that they 
were running on ahead of us. At length we emerged out 
of the bush upon an open plain, and saw three full-grown 
rhinoceros at full gallop enter the bush on the opposite side. 
As there was a large herd of oryx on the move on the plain, 
I left the bigger animals, having had quite enough of 
‘ rhino ’-shooting. The oryx had fled from the ^ rhino,’ and 
would pass us some few hundred yards off. I ran hard to 
get to some bushes, from which I should have had a grand 
chance, but I could not get there in time. When 1 reached 
the shelter, they had all gone past, and firing at their 
retreating forms, I missed clean both barrels ! 
Whilst we were looking at the track to see if we could 
find any blood, Nur Telegrapho (or whatever our guide’s 
name was) suddenly ran away from us with all his might. 
When I asked for an explanation of this extraordinary 
performance, my shikari said that he had heard a bird 
