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uprights his length was nine feet four inches, and his weight 
four hundred and ten pounds, for he was not fat. We 
skinned him and started for camp, which we reached after 
dark. There was a thunder-storm in the south-west, and 
in the red sunset that burned behind us the rain clouds 
turned to many gorgeous hues. Then daylight failed, the 
clouds cleared, and, as we made our way across the form¬ 
less plain, the half moon hung high overhead, strange stars 
shone in the brilliant heavens, and the Southern Cross lay 
radiant above the sky-line. 
Our next camp was pitched on a stony plain, by a 
winding stream-bed still containing an occasional rush- 
fringed pool of muddy water, fouled by the herds and flocks 
of the numerous Masai. Game was plentiful around this 
camp. We killed what we needed of the common kinds, 
and in addition each of us killed a big rhino. The two 
rhinos were almost exactly alike, and their horns were of the 
so-called “Keitloa” type; the fore horn twenty-two inches 
long, the rear over seventeen. The day I killed mine I used 
all three of my rifles. We all went out together, as Kermit 
was desirous of taking photos of my rhino, if I shot one; 
he had not been able to get good ones of his on the previous 
day. We also took the small ox wagon, so as to bring into 
camp bodily the rhino—if we got it—and one or two zebras, 
of which we wanted the flesh for the safari, the skeletons 
for the Museum. The night had been cool, but the day 
was sunny and hot. At first we rode through a broad val¬ 
ley, bounded by high, scrub-covered hills. The banks 
of the dry stream were fringed with deep green acacias, and 
here and there in relief against their dark foliage flamed 
the orange-red flowers of the tall aloe clumps. With the 
