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both exactly wrong, so Kermit could not take any 
photos ; and accordingly he shot the cow behind the 
shoulder. Away both animals went, Kermit tearing 
along behind, while Grogan and I followed. After a 
sharp run of a mile and a half Kermit overtook them, 
and brought down the cow. The younger one then 
trotted threateningly toward him. He let it get within 
ten yards, trying to scare it; as it kept coming on, and 
could of course easily kill him, he then fired into its 
face, to one side, so as to avoid inflicting a serious 
injury, and, turning, off it went at a gallop. When I 
came up the cow had raised itself on its forelegs, and he 
was taking its picture. It had been wallowing, and its 
whole body was covered with dry caked mud. It was 
exactly the colour of the common rhino, but a little 
larger than any cow of the latter that we had killed. 
We at once sent for Heller—who had been working 
without intermission since we struck the Lado, and 
liked it—and waited by the body until he appeared, in 
mid-afternoon. 
Here in the Lado we were in a wild, uninhabited 
country, and for meat we depended entirely on our 
rifles ; nor was there any difficulty in obtaining all we 
needed. We only shot for meat, or for Museum 
specimens—all the Museum specimens being used for 
food too—and as the naturalists were as busy as they 
well could be, we found that, except when we were after 
rhinoceros, it was not necessary to hunt for more than 
half a day or thereabouts. On one of these hunts, on 
which he shot a couple of buck, Kermit also killed a 
monitor lizard, and a crocodile ten feet long; it was a 
female, and contained fifty-two eggs, which, when 
scrambled, we ate and found good. 
The morning after Kermit killed his cow rhino he 
