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find him, and it was near midnight ere they could carry 
him into camp. By indomitable pluck he reached 
Baringo, carried in a litter, on the second morning; but 
it was not till the eighth day after the accident that the 
doctor arrived and the necessary operations could be 
performed. Poor Eastwood lost his right arm, but 
otherwise bears no trace of his terrible experience. 
Another rhino incident. Mr. Long-Innes, whom I 
met close by Baringo, had just had this curious adven¬ 
ture. While passing Lake Hannington on his way up, 
he suddenly saw the beast lying asleep beneath a dwarf 
mimosa, and only a few yards from the track. The 
rhino sprang to its feet in a blind charge. The Kikuyu 
gun-bearer with the rifle having promptly taken to his 
heels, Innes had no resource but to bolt the other way, 
but pitched his white Panama hat behind him as a blind. 
The rhino momentarily halted at this bait, but, seeing 
the flying Kikuyu beyond, transferred attention to him, 
and speedily overtaking him, “ chucked ” the luckless 
“ boy ” over his back, then continuing his course. 
Curiously, the Kikuyu was not seriously damaged. The 
blunt horn of the rhino had caught him under the 
chin—a blow that would surely have broken a white 
man’s neck, but in the savage it merely produced 
“ contusions ” ! 
