In this more or less undignified fashion it was carried by eight strong porters to Fort Hall, two marches away, where it lived only a week or ten days and then, to our sorrow and regret, succumbed from lack of proper nourishment.
[Drawing: _Retiring in Favor of Rhino_] Sometimes, when the _safari_ is marching through bush country, the rhino becomes an element of considerable anxiety; An armed party must precede the caravan and clear the route of rhinos, otherwise the porters are likely to be scattered by threatened charges.

It is no uncommon sight to see a crowd of heavily laden porters drop their loads and shin up the nearest tree in record time.

Consequently, strong protective measures are always demanded when a long train of unarmed natives is moving through bush or scrub country where there are many rhinos.
[Drawing: _Favorite Way of Being Photographed_] The lower Tana River country is admirably adapted to the life habits of the rhinos.

Formerly the district was well settled by natives, but now, owing to the fever conditions prevailing there, the natives have all moved away to more wholesome places and only the forlorn remains of deserted villages mark where former prosperity reigned.

The country has been abandoned to game, with the result that it has been enormously increasing during the last few years.