EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
153 
mv watchers nothing but a pair of horns and one foot 
as evidence of the morning’s sport. 
To-day C—, after a long hunt, killed four rhinos, 
one of which took nineteen shots, while B- and 
H-had no luck at all. I believe the best thing to 
do in a country full of these creatures is to sit still in 
camp and wait until natives come in and report a beast 
“ marked down ; ” especially if, as in our case, you find 
the greater part of the male population only too anxious 
to keep a sharp look-out, in the hope of being rewarded 
by a feast. 
Notwithstanding our heavy slaughter of rhinos, not 
a particle of meat was ever wasted, for we made it a 
standard rule that no animal life should be sacrificed 
for mere love of sport. 
The men we had sent back to Taveta to fetch the 
present of cloth for the chief of Useri returned during 
the afternoon, having been slightly delayed by the 
charge of a rhino cow and calf. The.head-man having 
killed the cow with a shot from his Martini-rifle, was 
charged and nearly trampled to death by the calf, 
before the rest of the party by wild firing managed to 
drive it away, apparently uninjured. While in this 
camp I succeeded in photographing some of the women 
and children, but the men with one voice declined to 
risk being operated upon. 
