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put my hand into empty pockets, the rest having fallen out in 
my haste, so I ran back to the camel to snatch more out of a 
haversack. Au Ismail saw me running back away from the 
rhinoceros, and jumped to the conclusion that I was running 
away ! So he began to bolt with the camel. I ran harder 
and harder, shouting to him to stop, and at last I got hold of 
him and explained what I wanted. Then, re-armed, I returned 
to the rhinoceros, which had been standing meanwhile in the 
same place, apparently unable to make out what I was about, 
and too sick to charge. Another shot finished it. Unfortun- 
ately they were both cows, but I was very pleased at the result 
of my first rhino hunt. 
I returned with the two heads to camp, and sent half a dozen 
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men to cut off the shields, of which we obtained thirty-five from 
the two skins. These men arrived in camp next morning, and 
said that while they had been cutting up the rhinos by the light 
of torches, several more had come round them, and a lion had 
roared to the westward. 
On our second day at Tiili we were unsuccessful with the 
rhinos, and when the water came from Dagahbur we marched 
to Gumbur Wedel, a small hill four miles to the north-west 
across the Rhinoceros Valley. Here we found beisa, ostriches, 
and Soemmerring’s and Waller’s gazelles very plentiful, and 
rhino tracks numerous. 
At 5 a.m. on 6th August we left Wedel, and for three miles 
struggled through thick grass and jungle, and then struck a 
good path running north-west. After going a mile along this 
I saw fresh rhino tracks where a pair had crossed the path 
during the night, and so going on with the caravan, I left my 
