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a rhino immediately afterward. Dr. Kolb was fond of 
rhinoceros liver, and killed scores of the animals for 
food; but finally a cow, with a half-grown calf, which 
he had wounded, charged him and thrust her horn right 
through the middle of his body. 
We spent several days vainly hunting bongo in the 
dense mountain forests with half a dozen ’Ndorobo. 
These were true ’Ndorobo, who never cultivate the 
ground, living in the deep forests on wild honey and 
game. It has been said that they hunt but little, and 
only elephant and rhino; but this is not correct as 
regards the ’Ndorobo in question. They were all clad 
in short cloaks of the skin of the tree hyrax ; hyrax, 
monkey, bongo, and forest hog, the only game of the 
dense, cool, wet forest, were all habitually killed by 
them. They also occasionally killed rhino and buffalo, 
finding the former, because it must occasionally be 
attacked in the open, the more dangerous of the two. 
Twice Delamere had come across small communities of 
’Ndorobo literally starving because the strong man, the 
chief hunter, the breadwinner, had been killed by a 
rhino which he had attacked. The headman of those 
with us, who was named Mel-el-lek, had himself been 
fearfully injured by a wounded buffalo ; and the father 
of another one who was with us had been killed by 
baboons which had rallied to the aid of one which he 
was trying to kill with his knobkerry. Usually they 
did not venture to meddle with the lions which they 
found on the edge of the forest, or with the leopards 
which occasionally dwelt in the deep woods ; but once 
Mel-el-lek killed a leopard with a poisoned arrow from 
a tree, and once a whole party of them attacked and 
killed with their poisoned arrows a lion which had slain 
a cow buffalo near the forest. On another occasion a 
