Rhino and young. 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. 
ing which they paid no heed whatever to the 
sun. Their sight is very bad, their scent 
and hearing acute. 
On this day Kermit was shooting from 
his left shoulder, and did very well, killing 
a fine Roberts’ gazelle, and three topi; I 
also shot a topi bull, as Heller wished a 
good series for the National Museum. The 
topi and wildebeest I shot were all killed 
at long range, the average distance for the 
first shot being over three hundred and 
fifty yards; and in the Sotik, where hunters 
were few, the game seemed if anything shyer 
than on the Athi plains, where hunters were 
many. But there were wide and inexplica¬ 
ble differences in this respect among the 
animals of the same species. One day I 
wished to get a doe tommy for the Mu¬ 
seum; I saw scores, but they were all too 
shy to let me approach within shot; yet 
four times I passed within eighty yards of 
bucks of the same species which paid hard¬ 
ly any heed to me. Another time I walked 
for five minutes alongside a big party of 
Roberts’ gazelles, within a hundred and 
fifty yards, trying in vain to pick out a buck 
