African Game Trails 
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As soon as we reached the rhino, Heller 
with his Wkamba skinners pushed forward 
the three-quarters of a mile to the eland, re¬ 
turning after midnight with the skin and all 
the best parts of the meat. 
Around the dead rhino the scene was lit 
up both by the moon and by the flicker of 
the fires. The porters made their camp 
the two camps lay the huge dead beast, his 
hide glistening in the moonlight. In each 
camp the men squatted around the fires 
chatting and laughing as they roasted strips 
of meat on long sticks, the fitful blaze play¬ 
ing over them, now leaving them in dark¬ 
ness, now bringing them out into a red 
relief. Our own tent was pitched under an- 
A tribe of the Wkamba with their chief (in- khaki with a golf cap) that 
came to present Mr. Roosevelt with a sheep near Kilimakiu. 
From a photograph by Kennit Roosevelt. 
under a small tree a dozen rods to one side 
of the carcass, building a low circular fence 
of branches on which they hung their bright- 
colored blankets, two or three big fires blaz¬ 
ing to keep off possible lions. Half as far 
on the other side of the rhino a party of 
naked savages had established their camp, 
if camp it could be called, for really all 
they did was to squat down round a couple 
of fires with a few small bushes disposed 
round about. The rhino had been opened, 
and they had already taken out of the car¬ 
cass what they regarded as titbits and what 
we certainly did not grudge them. Between 
other tree a hundred yards off, and when I 
went to sleep, I could still hear the drum¬ 
ming and chanting of our feasting porters; 
the savages were less at ease, and their revel 
was quiet. 
Early next morning I went back to camp, 
and soon after reaching there again started 
out for a hunt. In the afternoon I came on 
giraffes and got up near enough to shoot at 
them. But they are such enormous beasts 
that I thought them far nearer than they 
were. My bullet fell short, and they dis¬ 
appeared among the mimosas, at their 
strange leisurely looking gallop. Of all 
