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quite believed Mrs. Hurlburt when she said that she re¬ 
garded the fertile wooded hills of Kijabe, with their for¬ 
ests and clear brooks, as forming a true health resort. 
The northern look of the place was enhanced by the 
fact that the forests contained junipers; but they also con¬ 
tained monkeys, a small green monkey, and the big guerza, 
with its long silky hair and bold black-and-white coloring. 
Kermit, Heller, and Loring shot several. There were 
rhinoceros and buffalo in the neighborhood. A few days 
previously some buffalo had charged, unprovoked, a couple 
of the native boys of the mission, who had escaped only by 
their agility in tree-climbing. On one of his trips to an 
outlying mission station, Mr. Hurlburt had himself nar¬ 
rowly escaped a serious accident. Quite wantonly, a cow 
rhino, with a calf, charged the safari almost before they 
knew of its presence. It attacked Hurlburt’s mule, which 
fortunately he was not riding, and tossed and killed it; it 
passed through the line, and then turned and again charged 
it, this time attacking one of the porters. The porter dodged 
behind a tree, and the rhino hit the tree, knocked off a 
huge flake of bark and wood, and galloped away. 
The trek across ‘The thirst,^’ as any waterless country 
is apt to be called by an Africander, is about sixty miles, 
by the road. On our horses we could have ridden it in a 
night; but on a serious trip of any kind loads must be 
carried, and laden porters cannot go fast, and must rest at 
intervals. We had rather more than our porters could I 
carry, and needed additional transportation for the water I 
for the safari; and we had hired four ox wagons. They 
were under the lead of a fine young Colonial Englishman 
named Ulyate, whose great-grandfather had come to South 
