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or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness. He 
penetrates to all the out-of-the-way nooks and corners of 
the earth; he is schooled to the performance of very hard 
work, to the endurance of fatigue and hardship, to en¬ 
countering all kinds of risks, and to grappling with every 
conceivable emergency. In consequence he is exceedingly 
competent, resourceful, and self-reliant, and the man of all 
others to trust in a tight place. 
Around this camp there were no ravens or crows; but 
multitudes of kites, almost as tame as sparrows, circled 
among the tents, uttering their wailing cries, and lit on the 
little trees near by or waddled about on the ground near 
the cook fires. Numerous vultures, many marabou storks, 
and a single fish eagle, came to the carcasses set for them 
outside the camp by Loring; and he took pictures of them. 
The handsome fish eagle looked altogether out of place 
among the foul carrion-feeding throng; on the ground the 
vultures made way for him respectfully enough, but they 
resented his presence, and now and then two or three 
would unite to mob him while on the wing. 
We wished for another cow rhino, so as to have a bull 
and a cow both for the National Museum at Washington, 
and for the American Museum in New York; and Kermit 
was to shoot this. Accordingly he and I started off early 
one morning with Grogan—a man of about twenty-five, 
a good hunter and a capital fellow, with whom by this 
time we were great friends. It was much like our other 
hunts. We tramped through high grass across a big, 
swampy plain or broad valley between low rises of ground, 
until, on the opposite side, we struck a by-this-time familiar 
landmark, two tall royal palms, the only ones for some 
