of a friend; and this speech tickled his fancy so much,
that he said he never would part with anything I gave him.

8th and 9th.--The 8th went off much in the usual way, by my calling on
the king, when I gave him a pack of playing-cards, which he put into his
curiosity-box. He explained to me, at my request, what sort of things he
would like any future visitors to bring him--a piece of gold and silver
embroidery; but, before anything else, I found he would like to have
toys--such as Yankee clocks with the face in a man's stomach, to wind up
behind, his eyes rolling with every beat of the pendulum; or a china-cow
milk-pot, a jack-in-the-box, models of men, carriages, and horses--all
animals in fact, and railways in particular.

On the 9th I went out shooting, as Rumanika, with his usual politeness,
on hearing my desire to kill some rhinoceros, ordered his sons to
conduct the filed for me. Off we started by sunrise to the bottom of the
hills overlooking the head of the Little Windermere lake. On arrival
at the scene of action--a thicket or acacia shrubs--all the men in the
neighbourhood were assembled to beat. Taking post myself, by direction,
in the most likely place to catch a sight of the animals, the day's work
began by the beaters driving the covers in my direction. In a very short
time, a fine male was discovered making towards me, but not exactly
knowing where he should bolt to. While he was in this perplexity, I
stole along between the bushes, and caught sight of him standing as if
anchored by the side of a tree and gave him a broadsider with Blissett,
which, too much for his constitution to stand, sent him off trotting,
till exhausted by bleeding he lay down to die, and allowed me to give
him a settler.

In a minute or two afterwards, the good young princes, attracted by
the sound of the gun, came to see what was done. Their surprise knew
no bounds; they could scarcely believe what they saw; and then, on
recovering, with the spirit of true gentlemen, they seized both my
hands, congratulating me on the magnitude of my success, and pointed
out, as an example of it, a bystander who showed fearful scars, both on
his abdomen and at the blade of his shoulder, who they declared had been
run through by one of these animals. It was, therefore, wonderful to
them, they observed, with what calmness I went up to such formidable
beasts.

Just at this time a distant cry was heard that another rhinoceros was
concealed in a