. An ivory trader in North Kenia; the record of an expedition through Kikuyu to Galla-Land in east equatorial Africa. With an account of the Rendili and Burkeneji tribes . of a thorn tree, stretching myself outat full length upon the ground, a most uncomfortable position,as the ground was strewn with little knobs of rock firmlyembedded in the soil. When I did venture to remove someloose pieces that inconvenienced my elbows and knees, Idisturbed a few colonies of tiny ants, which, although theydid not bite, crawled all over me in a most uncomfortablemanner. I had lain there about half an hour,
. An ivory trader in North Kenia; the record of an expedition through Kikuyu to Galla-Land in east equatorial Africa. With an account of the Rendili and Burkeneji tribes . of a thorn tree, stretching myself outat full length upon the ground, a most uncomfortable position,as the ground was strewn with little knobs of rock firmlyembedded in the soil. When I did venture to remove someloose pieces that inconvenienced my elbows and knees, Idisturbed a few colonies of tiny ants, which, although theydid not bite, crawled all over me in a most uncomfortablemanner. I had lain there about half an hour, when mypatience was rewarded by the sight of the advance guard ofthe grantei army advancing steadily in my direction. Theywere led by a noble-looking buck, who displayed a mag-nificent pair of horns. He was a little suspicious, andhesitated whether to come on or not. I was very carefullyconcealed, and as I kept perfectly still, he finally conqueredhis distrust, and once more advanced, followed by theremainder of the herd. Waiting my opportunity, I bangedat him at forty yards, and dropped him with a dum-dumbullet through the heart. The others ran this way and that,. MR. G. H. WEST (GEORGE). .! RHINOCEROS SHOT BY GEORGE. (See page 293.) ARRIVAL AT MTHARA. 295 not knowing from which quarter the danger had come, as Istill kept carefully out of sight. The consequence was thatI secured two others, as handsome as the first, with theexpenditure of only two more cartridges. As I now hadenough meat, I stayed my hand, and did no further execution,though, had I been so disposed, I might have secured at leasta dozen from the herd before they finally recovered fromtheir confusion and took to flight. Of course, as I particularly wished to secure a couple ofrhinoceros, there were none to be seen, though at the GreenCamp they were usually as plentiful as could be a fruitless search, I returned to camp at midday, andthen despatched half a dozen men in as many directions tolook for
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