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LAKE RUDOLPH 
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rhinoceros is esteemed a delicacy by Swahilis. For my own 
part I never thought much of it, and the only part of this 
animal I usually ate was the tongue, though rhino tail is very 
good stewed (it takes about twelve hours’ boiling to render 
either tender); but my cook on this occasion concocted a dish 
which converted me and which I can recommend as an entree. 
He made me some rissoles of pounded liver and tongue (both 
previously boiled), flavoured with the herb of my own discovery 
to which I have previously alluded. These, nicely fried, are 
first-rate. Feruzi called these triumphs of his skill “ cartrets,” 
and I eventually came to the conclusion that he was trying to 
say cutlets (though of course that was the wrong term for them), 
but I would suggest that the dish may be called “ pate de faro ” 
on the menu. 
On 24th December I bagged another rhino. We had just 
had our usual short rest in the middle of the march, and I had 
already shouted the order to “ bandika,” when, as the men were 
beginning to take up their loads, I heard “ Fau, fau ! ” (an 
abbreviation of “ faro,” the Swahili for rhinoceros), and looking 
up saw a small and very thin rhino with long horns sauntering 
very slowly across to windward of us. It had evidently not 
heard us, though quite near, thanks to a stiff breeze that was 
blowing. Telling the men to sit down again and keep quiet, 
I took my .303 and went towards it, followed by Pice. I saw 
it was hardly worth shooting for meat ; but as it had a fine 
pair of horns and looked very small I was anxious to get its 
head as a specimen of the Bassu variety. With a high and 
favourable wind and stunted bushes between, I easily got close. 
Then it, I suppose, heard me, for it turned, and I at once gave 
it a shot. On receiving the bullet it waltzed round and round 
once or twice, and as it was moving away I put in a second by 
way of making doubly sure. It then got behind some scrub, 
and I set Pice on. His bark and its snorts showed me it was 
close by, and I got up just in time to see it totter and fall into 
a lying-down position, from which it never moved, I then 
