LETTER FROM SIR R. G. HARVEY. 
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eland, buffalo, rhinoceros, and Thomsoni. On one march we 
passed no less than twenty-three rhinoceros in ones, twos, and 
threes. 
Hunter secured a rhinoceros cow with a horn thirty-two 
inches long, and I a hull with a horn twenty-nine inches long 
and twenty-seven inches in circumference at the base. This is 
by far the heaviest horn I ever saw in Africa. 
During our stay in the Kilima-njaro region we had very good 
sport, hut game was not plentiful near Taveta, like the year 
before. A Dr. Abbott, an American, and several Germans had 
also been shooting, and that, with our former expedition, had 
driven the game back into the Masai country; in fact, any future 
sportsman who visits these regions, if desirous to get really 
first-rate sport, will have to go right in among the Masai, and 
have to go to the expense of a very large caravan. Among 
other game we bagged four lions—Hunter one, and myself the 
other three. I was very unlucky in losing three others that 
I wounded, but a very narrow escape I had from a wounded 
lioness made me very chary of following up wounded lions into 
thick bush by myself on foot. Hunter and I also succeeded 
in shooting the small animal up the mountain that we were so 
anxious to shoot the year before. It turned out simply to be the 
ordinary duiker of the plains below, which had at 11,000 feet 
developed a long coat, and in the distance much resembled the 
musk-deer of the Himalayas. Dr. Abbott secured an extraordi¬ 
nary animal at about 9000 feet very like a serow, but which 
was even darker in colour and on shorter legs, with horns about 
nine inches long. This I believe to be an entirely new species. 
We were unlucky this year as regards accidents, losing one 
man killed by a lion, two by buffalo, three speared by Masai, 
and two from dysentery; the latter was very prevalent with the 
men, and we ourselves and Indian servants all suffered from 
fever. The three men who were killed by the Masai included 
our head-man, Ali Mahomed, whose loss we much regretted. 
Our men, thirty-two in number, who were carrying horns, &c., to 
the coast, were attacked while crossing a dry watercourse just 
