II 
ON THE JAMBENI RANGE 
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and I thought it better to wait for it, so that I might be 
introduced by my friends to the adjoining tribe of Janjai (which 
I had been told was likely to be hostile to travellers), I decided 
to hunt for my men the next day and went out early for that 
purpose. I followed the little stream that rose close to my 
camp down for some distance and then struck across towards 
some koppies, which like those on the other side of the range 
are small craters—some almost perfect. But before getting 
far I saw three rhinos feeding in the open : a cow with a half- 
grown calf and a little way off a bull I got round to leeward of 
them and stalked the bull, keeping a tiny bush between us ; and 
then sat down and waited till he gave me a favourable chance, 
which he soon did, moving slowly across my position, when I 
gave him a shot behind the shoulder. He ran for a short way 
and stood for a little, but blood coming from nose and mouth 
showed that he was done, and he soon went down. As I 
wanted to get a good supply of meat to last my men some 
time (for they were only getting half rations of other food), and 
the rhinos were still unalarmed, I now turned my attention to 
the cow. I followed similar tactics in her case, getting a baby 
thorn tree before me, and gave her a precisely similar shot with 
exactly the same result. I wanted to let the young one go, as 
it was quite old enough to take care of itself; but as it would 
not run away and when we went forward seemed inclined to 
be pugnacious, and being as big as a large bullock could have 
made itself unpleasant, I shot it too. I sent for all hands to 
carry in the meat, and as it was only a short way from camp 
none of it was wasted, and it gave my men a good store of 
biltong. I didn’t myself care then for any part of a rhino 
except the tongue, which is very good when thoroughly boiled ; 
but Swahilis consider the liver a great delicacy, and delight 
in the oily fat. The latter I found useful, together with the 
elephant fat, of which I had now a good store, for my 
extemporised slush lamp (made out of a butter tin), as I was 
short of candles. 
